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With such material, who could go wrong? Probably lots of people, but Webber and Rice are not among them. They have not aimed so high as they did in their later Jesus Christ Superstar or Evita, but compared with those hits Joseph is better rounded, more buoyant and totally unpretentious. Despite its several transformations and elongations, it retains the child like wonder that it must have had when it was performed by children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In the Beginning | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...evidence is that banks are either quite well hedged against interest rate changes or could make themselves so if they wished. I've always been very unsympathetic to bankers' claims that volatile interest rates are killing them." With the earnings of the industry as a whole so buoyant, cries of pain and suffering just do not seem convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bankers' Touch | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...excess weight and a drinking problem, he suffered a ravaging heart attack that, in his own words, brought him "to the border between life and death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic change in his lifestyle. He is happily ensconced in a penthouse near Bonn. His close companion is Brigitte Seebacher, a young party activist who insists that he exercise daily and maintain his diet, and who takes him to her own hairdresser. Brandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Mild and Mellow | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...Derek is an engineering marvel -translucent eyes, enigmatic smile, buoyant breasts on a lithe, lovely frame. But there is a stillness, an emptiness to Bo's beauty that suggests that her proper medium may well be a Playboy photo spread. In movement, in movies, beauty is not enough-not even for a sex goddess. It must be animated by a glimmer of spirit, experience, desire. Inside the Bo ideal should be a real woman. Not yet. Not at all. She is form without content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Rot | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Stone for the $26,000 first prize. One other senior, notably Sam Snead, 69, objected to a ban on golf carts, but not Palmer, who has lost 20 lbs. over the past two years by running on the golf course next to his Latrobe, Pa., home. Said a buoyant Palmer: "I haven't played golf like this in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jul. 27, 1981 | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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