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When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Caught in the Crossfire | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Tehran's rapprochement with Moscow has enraged many of Iran's right-wing clergymen, who now regard the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as an opportunist and an apostate. Though the rightists have thus far lost the battle to keep the Islamic revolution uncontaminated by Communist support, they have gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Tilt to Moscow | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

In George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), set in the bohemian Latin Quarter of Paris, the sinister Svengali hypnotizes a tone-deaf gamine named Trilby and transforms her into an exquisite diva who becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

The action shifts chaotically between two years, 1955 and 1975. In the earlier year Giant is shot near by, after which one of its stars, James Dean, dies in a car crash; in the latter the Disciples of James Dean, a group of local fans, are holding a 20th reunion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Midgets | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Not that Die Soldaten lacks arresting moments. The brutal prelude mixes the Dies irae with an orchestral primal scream, propelled by a relentless pounding of timpani that recalls the opening of the Brahms First Symphony. Along the way, several of the ensembles are strikingly crafted, such as a dramatically dilatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The End of a World | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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