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...occupied by someone who knows his Wagner and has cast-iron confidence in his opinions. This summer has been the hottest in a century, and the theater is not air conditioned. While the music plays, the crowd sits still and silent; a sneeze brings savage stares. At the curtain call, though, reaction is unbridled. Virtue is rewarded with thunderous stamping on the wooden floors; lapses with lusty booing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Gods and Gold | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...mole Aldrich Ames said he betrayed U.S. agents behind the Iron Curtain for money and also because he wanted to shorten the cold war by "leveling the playing field," according to a report in the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 24-30 | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...director manages to retain much of Havel's opening, substituting effective lighting design for Havel's curtain (in the script, the opening has two false starts, each cut off by an abrupt curtain), and the dramatic opening acquaints us intimately with the chilling instability of Professor Leopold (Ian Lithgow...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Loeb's 'Largo' Impresses | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

...previous decades, he said, "the world as we knew it in economic term ended at the Iron Curtain. Now, the world is round again...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Former Seattle Mayor Royer Speaks at IOP | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart. The procedure would take no more than five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. Gacy snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled a curtain around him as they struggled to clear a tube. Finally, the two lethal drugs streamed into him. The monster was dead. But was the killing itself monstrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist Before Dying | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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