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...terms of artistic direction." Such an event is not at hand, however. Instead, what Baryshnikov said in his onstage eulogy of Mr. B. seems to apply more closely: "He looks out for us and for all companies." For the next few years, one hopes that he does not blink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

YOUR A I the console of a futuristic space video game. Five enemy ships blink at you malevolently. You have 15 ships: if they get zapped you're out. You out number your opponent, but each of the enemy ships has five missiles. You naturally fuel threatened...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Video Defense | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...radical?-and to anyone else who expected an orthodox production that was proper right down to the last parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano Michelle Harman-Gulick) in a flared short skirt and visor cap, giggling and jawing gum like a Tokyo Valley Girl; and the Mikado himself (Bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stockyard Savoyard | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Even the metrically untutored do not blink when doctors prescribe 500 mg (milligrams) of antibiotics or electricians recommend 15 A (ampere) fuses. Yet just as they have resisted learning foreign languages, Americans have long balked at changing measures. Says David Gorin, president of the nonprofit American National Metric Council: "The problem has deep roots. It goes back to a time when our economy was dominant and whatever we made was the biggest and best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Getting the U.S. to Measure Up | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Nastassia, Isabella, Joanna?elegant names, radiant new beauties in the world of movies and modeling. Their allure is distinctively European: it starts with their wide, serious eyes which do not blink at fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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