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Part spectacle, part Sophoclean tragedy, part historical drama, part revolutionary tract, Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is a truly original epic that brings old Russia startlingly to life. It is the semihistorical tale of a Kremlin politician who attains his country's throne by murdering the czar'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boris at the Met, At Last | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

As for the crux of the plot, Papa Peppino (Eli Wallach) is seething with suppressed virility because Mama Rosa (Sada Thompson) has denied him the full use of the matrimonial bed for some four months. Furthermore, she does not wave to him from the balcony or lay out his clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pasta, Everyone? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

On the other side of the lines, many busing opponents on Sixth Street said they blamed the liberal press for the state of affairs. After all, it was the press, they said, that had made busing a momentous issue initially, that had upheld the silly semantic delusion that "integration"--which...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Busing and The Press | 9/25/1974 | See Source »

And from behind the walls of San Clemente the delusion goes on. Richard Nixon is not escaping anything. He has fed his Watergate cancer. He has cast himself for his remaining years as an unrepentant criminal. He must now live a continuing coverup.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Truth Shall Make You Free | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Impassioned Protest. They were the exception. The typical expressionist posture was one of impassioned protest against a world that seemed, especially to young people raised in the stiffly hierarchical coils of German society and then traumatized by the war, mechanized beyond redemption. It was the last expiring twitch of German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Twitch of German Romanticism | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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