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...stop." He also likes a good explosion or two. Halfway along comes a percussive cataclysm that shakes the rafters like a latter-day The Rite of Spring. At the end, the glistening harmonics from three solo violins perched high in a rear balcony evoke a paradisiacal kingdom where the chil dren of light will reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Star-Child: Innocence and Evil | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...teacher, nicely played by Betty Buckley, rescues her and punishes her tormentors with extrastrenuous work outs, which naturally leads the dear chil dren to plot still deeper humiliation for Carrie. The idea is to rig her election as prom queen and destroy her at her moment of unexpected triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Movable Feast | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Well-muscled and of medium height, with reddish hair and flashing hazel eyes, Sabatini had the look of an outdoorsman. He married twice (in both cases Englishwomen) and had two chil dren. As the money rolled in, he bought an old mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...lied judges at Nuremberg who dispensed minor sentences to Lebensborn person nel, that was all there was to Himmler's program. New light is now being cast on a darker and less well-known phase of Lebensborn: the wholesale kidnaping of hundreds of thousands of foreign chil dren for the purpose of adding to Germany's breeding stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Himmler's Fountain | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...hear Chrissie tell it, she will not have to sacrifice her personal life for too long. She insists that she intends to quit the pro game in three to five years, get married and have two to four chil dren. "Too long a tennis career can ruin a girl and harden her," she says. "Ten nis isn't the most important thing in my life. It's so materialistic. Marriage and family are more important, and so is religion - and love. I'd rather be known for being a girl than for being a tennis player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chris Evert: Miss Cool on the Court | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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