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...some 6.5 million Broadway theatergoers before them -- not to ! mention the audiences for touring versions in the U.S. and 22 other nations -- A Chorus Line epitomized the guts and glory of show business. As shaped by director-choreographer Michael Bennett, it pioneered new themes and forms in its candid portrayal of the backstage and personal lives of dancers and in its deceptively simple, quasi-documentary staging, which interwove an informal audition with razzmatazz performing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Sensation's Final Bow | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...smart and naturally skeptical, she got little from her wary father except put-downs. Germaine educated herself, went on to a successful career as a scholar, teacher and author. But the early slights -- her father's callousness and failure to confide in her -- still rankle, and she is zestfully candid about her resentments. "Yippee!" she exults when a parental lie comes to light, or "Gotcha!" Yet this glee is tempered by a deep sympathy with the narrow possibilities of her father's life and indeed with any form of struggle and suffering that people must endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gotcha! DADDY, WE HARDLY KNEW YOU by Germaine Greer | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Thus, the `chilling effect' petitioner fears is at most only incrementally worsened by the absence of a privilege. Finally, we are not so ready as petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less candid as the possibility of disclosure increases, others may simply ground their evaluations in specific examples and illustrations in order to deflect potential claims of bias or unfairness. Not all academics will hesitate to stand up and be counted when they evaluate their peers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From the Court's Decision | 2/2/1990 | See Source »

Many college administrators were critical of the ruling. Said David Markowitz of the American Council on Education: "There will be fewer people willing to take part in peer reviews. The court is asking people to submit themselves to possible punishment for being candid." But Tung, who now teaches at the University of Wisconsin, saw things differently. "If people make an objective evaluation of a candidate's work," she said, "they have nothing to fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Controversial Quartet | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...political debate in human terms and a gift for precision in portraying colleagues. On some topics -- the long decline of the weekly LIFE, endless jockeying in middle management, assorted ideas for new magazines that failed or were never tried -- the tale bogs down. But Donovan gives readers a candid sense of how decisions were made, complete with glimpses of pressure being applied (and resisted) by half a dozen Presidents and countless tycoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Time | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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