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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more flexible, conventional tonal language, fleshed out with references to past masters (Debussy, Beethoven, Richard Strauss) and even Glenn Miller, as the dramatic situation demands. There has always been a theatricality about Adams' music -- the 1981 Harmonium was a vivid choral setting of poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson -- and in Nixon its dramatic qualities have flowered. The figures are sharply characterized: Nixon (James Maddalena), for example, is a gruff baritone whose music is often stiff and halting, while Chairman Mao (John Duykers) is cast as a heldentenor. His body may be weak, but his mind and voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stagecraft As Soulcraft | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Neuharth did not help the company's balance sheet last month when he staged lavish fifth-anniversary parties in six cities, including a star-studded Los Angeles bash with Actress Angie Dickinson and Author Jackie Collins. Next project: a weekday half-hour television version of USA Today, scheduled to debut next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Paper Party | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...balances that found their way into the Constitution's basic text. On the whole, that original, unamended text is a model Enlightenment tract, carefully checking and balancing as if in imitation of the moderate universe in which 18th century Europe trusted. One of the framers, John Dickinson, even saw the proposed relationship between the states and the Federal Government as an analogue to Newtonian physics; and why not? Whatever is, is right. If the "man" Pope considered in his "Essay" needed a body of laws, the American Constitution would do just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Lives There? | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...abundant, possibly innocent acts inflated by Kennedy's lurid reputation. On Inauguration night, just after Jackie had gone home alone (she was still recovering from the difficult birth of John Jr.), a reporter peered through the potted palms behind the stage and saw Actresses Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson joining the President's small coterie. At a Palm Beach, Fla., mansion following Kennedy's summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the President dined with an old school chum, an acquaintance and two attractive young ladies. The acquaintance left after dinner and the chum and the ladies pointedly stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Upstairs at the White House | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Kevin Dahl 30 2 6 8 21 50 Tom Pratt 39 1 7 8 23 46 Gary Kruzich 36 0 8 8 7 17 Geoff Williams 17 2 4 6 9 26 Thad Rusiecki 24 2 4 6 13 35 Brian Meharry 12 1 4 5 6 20 Steve Dickinson 2 0 1 1 0 0 Paul Connell 7 0 0 0 0 0 Others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowling Green Hockey | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

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