Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist Party, at once seeking to improve public morale with fair laws and to maintain its total control, is left awkwardly balanced. Explains another deputy director of the Law Institute, Li Pu-yun: "Everyone in China, including party members, is under the law. But at the same time we don't think the law should be almighty." The compromise may be less than satisfactory, but still it is an improvement over the "lawlessness" Peking praised only a decade...
Anti-Wagner finally arrived at the Metropolitan Opera with French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production of The Flying Dutchman, the tale of a legendary captain condemned to sail forever unless he is able to find a woman faithful until death. Every seven years he in a can come ashore to search for her, and in Norweigian fishing village he finds Senta, a girl obessed by fantasy who believes that she is his redemptress. It is a straightforward story, but Ponnelle has turned it all into the lurid dream of a young steersman. This allows him to dress Senta...
...show business. If ever a project looked doomed, it was this one. Hair's source, the 1968 Broadway hit, was a largely plotless, if tuneful, show that homogenized the '60s for theater audiences; even at the time, it was dated. The movie's creators -Czech-born Director Milos Forman, Playwright Michael Weller, Choreographer Twyla Tharp-have never previously negotiated the perilous tides of movie musicals. Add a largely unproven cast and a grand budget, and you can see just how hairy an undertaking this movie was. One false move, and Hair would have congealed into Grease...
...from the soccer field. Other arenas soon presented themselves. Not quite 21, Camus married Simone Hie, a beautiful young woman and a drug addict. Within a year the couple were estranged, and Camus began his lifelong exploration of "the tender and reserved friendship of women." He became an actor-director in a workers' theater, a profession that taught him the value of public postures, and he joined the Communist Party, with which he would have his bitterest wrangles...
DIED. John H. Knowles, 52, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and outspoken critic of the American medical profession and U.S. health care policies; of cancer of the pancreas; in Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where he once served as general director for ten years. Knowles interned and later specialized in respiratory diseases at Mass. General, and in 1962, at age 35, he was named head of the 1,084-bed teaching hospital, the youngest in its 158-year history. An innovative administrator, he earned admirers and enemies throughout his tenure by decrying high doctors' fees and advocating preventive...