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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet at the injustice of the ending. The production is under discussion for transfer to the U.S. As with London's other pair of current triumphs, it cannot come too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Trio of Triumphs in London | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

Dead Poet's Society is undoubtably one of the best--perhaps, indeed, the best--film of the summer. But, like poetry, its qualities cannot be graphed and measured...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: You Can't Quantify `Dead Poet's' | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...than the federal, state or local governments want to pay. But, warns Carnegie, the real choice is whether to fund health clinics, counseling and teacher training today or pay the far higher cost of dropouts, an ill-prepared work force and swelling welfare and prison rolls tomorrow. "The nation cannot afford to continue neglecting these youth," concludes the report. Lorraine Monroe, director of the Center for Minority Achievement at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education, agrees. "We can't hold school the way we used to hold school," she says. "Some educators may say, 'I didn't sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help For At-Risk Kids | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...popular artists come and go, but there is a degree of aesthetic literacy that cannot be faked. Wilmarth's originality was of the only kind that counts, born of long reflection on the past. He was a child of the museum, which is why this posthumous show seems so much like a homecoming. He was steeped in a great tradition of which the exemplars were, in poetry, Stephane Mallarme; in painting, Henri Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poetry In Glass and Steel | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Without the constitutional prohibition against a third term, might he have run again? Reagan, in his first full interview since leaving the White House, gave that slow, easy smile, ducked his head in a kind of protest against such audacity. "I cannot answer that, really," he said. "With ((the 22nd Amendment)) in place, you did not even think of it. You knew that it was all over at the end of two terms." Hunch: he sure would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Warm Reverie of Reagan's Retirement | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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