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...singing of Flagstad and Melchior should earn the album an honored place in any record collection. Sheer voice was their badge; yet what made them extraordinary was the uncanny way they could suggest a passion that was at once human and mythical. In particular, Flagstad's ability to float her tenderer notes was almost supernatural-and hard to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voices from the Past | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...rest of the U.S. has frequently regarded New York with a certain hostile suspicion. Barry Goldwater was probably thinking of New York some 15 years ago when he suggested that the country might be better off if the Eastern seaboard could be sawed off and allowed to float out to sea. In this opinion. New Yorkers were arrogant, crass, rude. They presumed to tell the rest of the nation-through television, magazines and books-what to think, how to dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism, supercilious radical chic in the penthouses, while the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: CARTER & CO. MEET NEW YORK | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...bunkers to await the fallout. He won his bet. Screeched a San Francisco Chronicle headline: REAGAN WOULD SEND GI'S TO AVERT RHODESIA WAR. Hastily, the candidate began to backtrack: "I made the mistake of trying to answer hypothetical questions with hypothetical answers." When that did not float very high, Reagan began to pass off his suggestion as in keeping with current U.S. policy: "The same thing we've been doing in the Middle East." Then he became even further mired in his own rhetoric by criticizing U.S. failure to offer "our services" in Cyprus and Lebanon until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Reagan's Rhodesian Expeditionary Force | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Indeed, the toughest challenge for crews--and the highlight for spectators--seemed to be getting the rafts to float before the start. There was no dearth of contestants for the "first to sink tastefully" award...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Sundry Crews Float and Win, Sink and Swim in Adams Race | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...backwards, and Fischer steals sideways. They turn sharply and skulk towards the audience--sputtering, chortling, swallowing shrill screams -- then disappear into the wings. The three return, this time with overcoats hunched up over their heads, and pick up the stealthy tempo. As music by Paul Sparrow sounds, their overcoats float up into space, swaying as if alive: objects animated by creatures...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Inching Into Apparition | 4/28/1976 | See Source »

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