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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During her career, she has enjoyed triumphs for which other sopranos would give their last high C-in spite of a well-deserved reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Angelic Purity, Raw Urgency | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

When a student cannot establish his need for additional funds he may decide to cancel or pay back a portion of his loan or he may decide to stop working. But each case in an individual one. Students will not automatically exceed their earnings ceiling by working second semester. No students have been notified so far that they are approaching their earnings ceiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Jobs | 1/8/1982 | See Source »

...same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit to Tel Aviv, in order to attend to the Polish crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Begin's Brash Blitz | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...military contracting can be troublesome too, despite the vaunted plans of the Reagan Administration. The U.S. Navy announced last week that it was planning to cancel the purchase of at least $1.25 billion worth of Lockheed's P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft in order to save money for other programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catch a Falling TriStar | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...what kept them together. This is no doubt deliberate--a modern, detached paradigm of "bohemian" relationships, all that petty squabbling and navel-gazing. Only in the second half of the movie, when they have no scenes together, do we become emotionally involved in their relationship. The Soviets cancel Reed's travel plans, the Finns throw him in prison, and Bryant makes her long, surreptitious trek across snowy landscapes and gazes out longingly over icy lakes. We want to see that teary embrace so badly that by the time we get there Beatty's got us; he takes his time...

Author: By --david B. Edelstein, | Title: Revolution As Aphrodisiac | 12/16/1981 | See Source »

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