Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concrete cooling towers looming eerily in the dusk on this week's cover belong to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant complex outside Harrisburg, Pa., site of the most serious accident in the relatively brief history of nuclear power. TIME dispatched three correspondents and a staff photographer to the stricken area, and their reports and pictures, along with files from our bureaus across the nation, were woven by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson into a story that not only reconstructs the accident in detail, but also assesses its consequences for the future of nuclear power and for U.S. energy...
Argento, who won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize, has not totally lost his musical sense. There are several ensembles-brief trios and quartets, a long quintet-that have attenuated fascination in this dream world. The orchestration is sparse, but it underscores the decay and the stopped time that Miss Havisham inhabited after she smashed her clocks on what was to be her wedding...
...nicely suited to Wain's thoughtful treatment of two middle-aged men joyfully making fools of themselves over younger women. In less knowing hands, The Pardoner's Tale might have been only a clever sex reversal on the stock English romance about a maiden schoolteacher's brief tryst in Italy. But instead of sentimentality, Wain offers genuine sentiments. Instead of passion enveloping quivering loins in petals of fire, there is a steady sensuous glow that warms the brain...
...tour was expensive ($650,000 put up by corporations, and a third of that by Coca-Cola), and pitifully brief. But last week it seemed as if the Chinese thought the Boston Symphony Orchestra had brought Western classical music intact off their jet. The musicians left behind sets of gut strings, pounds of musical scores and manuscript paper. They also promised to find a way to get some Chinese students to next summer's festival at Tanglewood. Ozawa was careful to point out that this would be a good bargain for both: "Americans need to see the intensity...
Osborn's real strength is not that of a novelist, but as an entertainer. In one very funny set piece. Littlefield, an associate fond of drugs and arcane legal philosophy, writes a brief for a crucial case that cites Cicero instead of legal precedents. He is fired by Lynch, a partner driven mad by the weight of his famous legal ancestors. The next morning, it is Lynch's turn to perform. In court to argue the case, he opens his mouth, but no words come out, leaving Weston to wonder if the poor wretch is going to make...