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...like a Trappist monastery. Long before the curtain went up on Das Rheingold, which opens the cycle, the cafés were humming with musical gossip: Tenor Reiner Goldberg, Solti's original choice to sing the difficult role of Siegfried, had been fired (true). Soprano Hildegard Behrens, the Brünnhilde, had quit (false). The Hall production, with sets by Designer William Dudley, would be the biggest fiasco since ... well, since 1976, when Patrice Chéreau scandalized the good burghers with his iconoclastic, neo-Marxist Ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Warm Days for Wagner Knights | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Maxie Leroy Anderson, 48, daredevil, eye-patched balloonist who captured the world's delighted attention in 1978 when he and two fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining fortune, Anderson took up ballooning as "a way of entering history." In his final flight, Anderson and frequent Co-Pilot Don Ida, 49, were desperately trying to land before drifting into East Germany when their gondola became detached and the two adventurers plunged 2,000 ft. to their deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...satirical spirit that animated the hit Broadway show has been dispensed with. The new film, like its predecessor has as its sole aim the corruption of chil dren under the age of 14. Not that it will impair them morally. No, the aim is to generate false, commercialized nostalgia br what is made to seem a simpler, yet more colorful teen time than their own. The movie strains and strains for the effect Gregory's Girl achieves without trying, perhaps did not consciously intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teeny Bombers | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...Brad Bauer flied to center. Vinnie Martelli with his fourth hit of the afternoon, a line single into center to score Scheper, Walks to Donnie Allard, Eddie Farrell, and DiCesare, and an error on Harasimewicz, give Harvard two more runs and the game. First Game Tufts ab f h br Harvard ab f h bl Guisti ef 2 1 1 0 Chicarellodh 3 0 1 0 Andon lf 3 2 2 1 Weller ef 3 0 1 0 Hewiczen 2 1 0 0 Beuer 3b 3 0 0 0 Krueger 3b 3 0 2 1 Martellie...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Crimson Nine Splits GBL Twin-Bill With Jumbos | 5/12/1982 | See Source »

500m--1. Cor, Badley 2. Br. West 3. Y. Pasko 4. Py. Bruce 5. Pe, Pheny...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women Thinclads 2nd in ivies, Men 5th at Heps | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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