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...parallels between Wagner's life and his works, but few have ever acted on them so explicitly. Central to understanding the Seattle Opera's Ring is the notion that Wagner and Wotan are cognates, and that just as the composer uses leitmotivs, or musical symbols, to weave and bind his sprawling tapestry, so should Wotan employ theatrical symbols -- props -- to underscore the unity of the world he has created. The universe of the Ring is an illusion, a necromancer's house of cards, that must finally come crashing down...
...Midwest's surplus is so stubbornly large that even this year's severe drought in the South will fail to boost depressed farm prices. The sad result: farmers in those states will face a double bind of low prices and small harvests, which could push many of them over the financial brink. Last week's heat wave, which reached 105 degrees F in parts of the Carolinas, further scorched crops and killed more than 500,000 chickens. "This could put us completely out of business," laments Dairy Farmer Charlie Bouldin, of Chatham County, N.C., who expects less than...
...separate computer system links florists in New York with Candy-Gram shops in Oregon. Another yokes travel agents to airlines and hotels around the world. Others bind together bank tellers, brokers, car rental chains, defense contractors, factory robots, police departments, university labs, intelligence agencies and the vast U.S. military machine. Says Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the networking system called Ethernet: "It's like one big nervous system...
Though Baby Boomers are as diverse as members of any other generation, especially because theirs ranges in age from 40 down to 22, Thomas believes there are strong ties that bind, chiefly rock 'n' roll and the changing role of women. Says he: "My first editor at TIME was a woman. Before that, my boss on the Harvard Crimson was a woman. At law school, one-third of my class was female. In fact, I met my wife in civil-procedure class." Had he belonged to the older generation, Thomas might have really believed that, as Rocker Cyndi Lauper says...
More and more debtors are deciding that the only way out of their bind is to declare personal bankruptcy. A law that became effective in October 1979 made the process much less onerous than before. No longer, for example, do borrowers have to give up their homes and cars to gain protection from creditors. As a result of the new rules, the number of bankruptcies jumped from 179,112 in 1978 to 523,825 in 1981. While the filings predictably declined after the economic recovery got under way in 1983, they have recently been on the rise again. Last year...