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...Most of the large departments have switched to de-personalized instruction," said Giuseppe Di Palma, chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Gov Department Updates Graduate Study Program | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...other times they are merely self-indulgent displays of temperament. But, win or lose, the director as hero has emerged as the most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One Sings, the Other Doesn't | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...assiduously promoted. It is therefore not surprising that the Biennale should devote several rooms to him. However, the qualities of La Pittura Colta go far beyond, or below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gliding over a Dying Reef | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...desire to get the highlight on the Spartan's backside right-not that it always does so. It has the calm not of classical elevation but of exhausted decadence. The Venetian setting is unfair to it, for anyone can take the water-bus back to the Scuola di San Rocco and see what Tintoretto could do with the human figure. The right place for it is Las Vegas, among the fountains of Caesars Palace and La Scultura Sinatra. -By Robert Hughes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gliding over a Dying Reef | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Bank holidays, that look of Princess Di...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Lines on a Laureate-to-Be | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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