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...genre piano trio readily become a battle of bowed and percussive strings. To begin with, one rarely hears a well-established trio--compositions of this type are more frequently presented by three soloistic virtuosi who, for various reasons, agree to tolerate each other for an evening of 'chamber music...

Author: By Stephen E. Hefling, | Title: Discordant Trios | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

Jane Greenwood's togas and gowns are fine, though I am less fond of the leather military uniforms and not at all fond of the inverted chamber pots the soldiers wear on their heads. John Morris's incidental music is inferior, and is too often used to underscore speech that would better have our undivided attention. Still, Kahn is offering a production that is certainly worth a visit unless the 1953 film happens to be playing nearby...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Handsome 'Julius Caesar' Opens 18th Season | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Philip Bailley, 29, seemed the very model of a modern, upwardly mobile lawyer. In 1966, he was the Crescent Cities, Md., winner of the Speak Up for America contest sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He graduated from Washington's Catholic University law school in 1969, and everybody got a good laugh when his classmates named him in the school's lampoon newspaper as the future attorney "most likely to be disbarred." He built a practice that earned him $25,000 a year, most of it in government legal fees for defending the indigent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Philip & Astrid & Etc. | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...famous case of that day involved a series of demonic rituals commissioned by a mistress of Louis who felt that she was falling out of favor. To regain the monarch's love, she had a corrupt priest say sacrilegious Masses *over her nude body in a subterranean Paris chamber, sacrificing a live child at the height of each Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...part is more an addition onto the Science Center than a part of it. It is called the Chilled Water Plant, and it serves as a giant $6.5 million airconditioning unit. The machinery for the plant fills the largest room in the Science Center--a 40-foot-deep basement chamber running along the full length of the building's Oxford St. side...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Old Ideas Surface in a New Science Center | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

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