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...party included a ceremony saluting Americans of varied ethnic backgrounds that were not all acknowledged in July. Among the 80 honorees: Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Walters. Next day a glittering concert and dinner dance at New York City's Lincoln Center featured Charles Aznavour, Julio Iglesias, Placido Domingo and the premiere of a new cantata by Composer William Schuman. When all was conclusively said and exhaustively done, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation had chalked up some $300 million. "That's a lot of bake sales," quipped Foundation Chief Lee Iacocca, as he prepared to return exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 10, 1986 | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino Diaz makes a splendidly vile Iago. Yet Zeffirelli's presumption in heavily editing Verdi's taut masterpiece serves neither movie audiences nor opera lovers well, and the patina of homoeroticism that suffuses the film contradicts the heterosexual spirit of both libretto and score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Oct. 6, 1986 | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...political pressure group. To the outside world, it is tempting to term their current situation an identity crisis, though the mothers would firmly disagree. Argentina is a nation where movements rapidly, sometimes underhandedly, sometimes violently, turn into governments. (The most outstanding example is that of dictator Juan Domingo Peron, who managed to unite the most curious mixture of labor unions, fascist military men, left-wing guerrillas and a host of other disparate elements into a movement that has lost its cohesion in the 31 years since Peron was overthrown and in the 12 years since he enjoyed another brief stint...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Cry for Me, Argentina | 8/5/1986 | See Source »

...Central Electoral Board in the capital of Santo Domingo last week, a special police unit maintained an around-the-clock watch over election computers. Days had passed since nearly 2 million Dominicans waited in line, sometimes for as long as eight hours, to cast votes in the May 16 presidential election. Still the country was without a new leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic Slow Pokes | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...reputed military chief of the Basque terror group ETA, Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, is suspected of masterminding dozens of killings in Spain. ETA most recently took responsibility for a bomb attack two weeks ago that killed five policemen. Iturbe, 42, has been kept out of reach of the Spanish since he fled to France in 1968. In 1982 French authorities declared him a political refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Putting Heat on Separatists | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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