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A mirror to music--tracing its form with a mind to undermining its content--is what Kramer does as well in "Haiku." Sitting on stage, cellist Ron Heifetz bows the trills of a Bach suite to no more than a half-dozen dance motifs. The choreography is skeletal, easily divisible...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: At the Still Point | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

It is a classic confrontation. Walker, urbanely handsome and acerbically independent, is running for a second term against the venerable Democratic machine of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Hewlett, folksy and wisecracking, is running with machine support. The outcome will go a long way toward determining the political leadership of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNORS: Savage Scrap in Illinois | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

IT WAS NOT A typical beginning of an orchestra concert. The violinists shrieked at the top of their register without definable pitch, while the cellists slapped their instruments and scraped violently below the bridge with their bows, creating a tumult like the roar of giant wasps. Periodically, the screams would...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy | 11/4/1975 | See Source »

The sporting life, which offered Franco virtually his only escape from official routine, was abandoned in recent years for the regal pleasures of a cloistered castle existence: liveried servants, Moorish guards on white stallions, walls covered with Goya tapestries-and obsequiousness everywhere. Foreign ambassadors who were granted audiences with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: FINIS: 36 YEARS OF IRON RULE | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Dry Rivers. In the last stages of negotiations, the diplomats worked 18-hour days against a deadline of July 18, finally winding up the bulk of their business at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, July 19. The last hitch was over the description of détente, which the Soviets wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Star-Studded Summit Spectacular | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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