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...state dining room, his throwing arm restrained by his tuxedo, his hands folded as in supplication, his partner the dainty Nancy Reagan instead of the "diesel" John Riggins. In his dignified spectacles, Actor Burt Reynolds could have been taken for a professor of Chinese art. At his side was Dinah Shore, gracefully gowned with Hollywood-style decolletage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Talking Peace and Pork Chops | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...guest of honor at the lavish state dinner was Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. But when Burt Reynolds, 47, arrived at the White House arm in arm with his old flame Dinah Shore, 66, the Washington press corps quickly turned its attention from international to personal politics. "I wouldn't tell you if it was true," stonewalled Reynolds, as he tried to fend off a barrage of questions about his relationships with Shore and Actress Sally Field, 37, who also happened to be in town. Reynolds was eventually pulled to safety by Nancy Reagan, 62, who teasingly told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 23, 1984 | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music 1941: Tin Pan Alley Creates War Songs | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Kennedy Center and La Scala, is a two-hour sequel to Bernstein's 1952 Trouble in Tahiti, a one-act gem stone that gently chided the false contentment of the burgeoning new American suburbs, while poignantly focusing on the failing marriage of an archetypal couple, Sam and Dinah. In its fluid, assured handling of styles, its economy of means and its genuine melodic inspiration, Trouble in Tahiti is a small masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trouble in Houston for Lenny | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...mystery. Does anyone care what happens to Mr. and Mrs. Calaf after the curtain goes down on Turandof? But Bernstein and Librettist Stephen Wadsworth, 30, a former editor of Opera News, have gone ahead to construct a convoluted second chapter that picks up 30 years later, just after Dinah's death in a suicidal, drunken car crash. There are now ten characters instead of two: the couple's son Junior (Baritone Timothy Nolen) and daughter Dede (Soprano Sheri Greenawald, in an outstanding performance); Dede's bisexual husband François (Tenor Peter Kazaras), who was formerly Junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trouble in Houston for Lenny | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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