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Last week the Bolshoi began a return visit to the U.S., and its opening production showed the effects of its struggle to adapt to changing times. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the company presented a brand-new version of its trademark work, Eugene Onegin. Only in the ballroom scene of the last act did the Bolshoi offer a whiff of its old grandiosity. Otherwise, the staging -- apparently designed to focus more attention on the main characters -- relied on one all-too-all-purpose country-house set for the first four scenes and on one skeletal tree for the fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Bolshoi Adapt to the Times? | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...escaped the divisiveness of a multiethnic society by a brilliant solution: the creation of a brand-new national identity. The point of America was not to preserve old cultures but to forge a new, American culture. "By an intermixture with our people," President George Washington told Vice President John Adams, immigrants will "get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people." This was the ideal that a century later Israel Zangwill crystallized in the title of his popular 1908 play The Melting Pot. And no institution was more potent in molding / Crevecoeur's "promiscuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cult of Ethnicity, Good and Bad | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...NEW SCHOOLS. The President wants to "reinvent the American school." Federal grants of $1 million each would go to start 535 brand-new experimental schools by 1996, with at least one in each congressional district. Meanwhile, businesses would contribute $150 million or more to a research-and-development fund. The schools would "break the mold," says Bush. Sponsors could be public or private. Once reforms are working, he hopes, a populist ground swell will demand that they be imitated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Revolution Hoping for a Miracle | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...fleeing Kurds are barefoot peasants as well as prosperous city dwellers and farmers who have tried to escape with their cars, trucks and tractors. A white Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera joins the line, along with a brand-new Massey- Ferguson harvesting combine. Iranian soldiers drive up the road, throwing bread to the Kurds and starting a frantic scramble that sends more than one person rolling down a steep embankment. When the crowd parts, old men patiently pick the crumbs out of rocks and mud, their only margin of survival. Whenever the refugees discover a reporter in their midst, they crowd around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: Omar's Journey | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...Shep Deering has a night job herself -- as a musician. She plays a fine jazz piano and sings a supernal jazz ballad. People like Miles Davis, Wynton and Branford Marsalis and Toots Thielemans play along with her. She also has a brand-new album that is hovering near the top of the Billboard jazz chart. You Won't Forget Me is the title. It may also be read as an unconditional guarantee: Shirley Horn is indelible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Her Own Sweet Time | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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