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With brilliant decor and alien music, Robbins gives this ballet a fresh-as- tomorrow look, but the choreography blends fairly closely with two other strong Robbins works now in repertory, Piano Pieces and the brief Andantino. And as always, Robbins nods to the dances of his mentor George Balanchine, particularly swift, sharply etched Rubies and the propulsive Agon. He is experimenting with a new kind of music, and how far he will go is unclear. But in the meantime he puts on a hell of a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Smiles of a Winter Night | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments when Annis is onscreen, Dune finds the emotional center that has eluded it in its parade of rococo decor and austere special effects. She reminds us of what movies can achieve when they have a heart as well as a mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...operation and the man who performed it, Dr. William DeVries. She sought second, third, even fourth opinions from experts in the field. Yet she never lost sight of the human drama. At briefings for reporters at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, she found herself "slipping in questions about the decor of Schroeder's hospital room between questions about whether there was too much fluid in his lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 10, 1984 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 22, 1984 | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...time was that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. If the intimacy of his art seems so far from the bemusing pomp of Versailles, it is partly because his imitators lagged; it took time to convert the scenography of Watteau's fugitive, shadowed mind into a system of decor suitable for the Pompadour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sounding the Unplucked String | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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