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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Latin America's magic realists, she has a singular talent for producing full- scale representational portraits with comic surreal touches. Her rendering of the Trueba patriarch Esteban and his wife Clara is a hilarious display of mismatching. While the crude, commonsensical Esteban is doomed by nature to cause constant offense to his wife, Clara the Clairvoyant irritates her spouse by her perpetual whispered concourse with the spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Chile with Magic the House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...moving tribute to a man who has retained his friends if not his reputation. Dozens of supporters from the military, corporate and political elite pleaded for leniency. "I don't know of another man living in this country who has been as dedicated, patriotic and such a willing and constant servant to our Government and our Constitution," Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona said in a letter. "I have always found him to be honest and forthright," wrote former President Gerald Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stiff Sentence | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...management style. Despite pledges made to Parliament that he would respect the editorial independence of the Times, Murdoch forced out Editor Harold Evans after a year of editorial and budgetary wrangling. He indulges a love for details, whether it is writing a headline for the Post or keeping in constant touch with his worldwide holdings by telephone. As a boss, he can be emotional, impulsive and demanding. "Murdoch runs a Byzantine court," says a former Sun-Times executive. "There is only one decision maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: America's Newest Video Baron | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...times Wingrove does allow things to get stuffy in an unfunny way. The rahther heavy English accents and the constant over-acting are initially acceptable, but as the play wears on the over-acting wears thin and the over-Oxbridge intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...

Author: By T.m. Doyle, | Title: No Sneezes | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

...tutelage of the wise, omnipresent, and somewhat jaded Pangloss played superbly by Jon Tolin Pangloss also serves as the show's magnificent narrator--Voltaire in a similar vein to Salieri's narration in the stage production of Amadeus. From his excellent bedside miming during the overture to his constant reincarnations throughout the course of his pupil's bizarre encounters with fate, Tolin's Voltaire exudes a special acceptance of life that his students have yet to learn. Tolin's transitions from character to character are very smooth, and his voice reveals his vibrant guidance of the story's frequently unbelievable...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Best of All... | 5/3/1985 | See Source »

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