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Even Thailand's foremost art historian, Piriya Krairiksh, admits that he has trouble distinguishing Yas' reproductions from the 11th century originals. "It's awfully difficult because of his technical excellence, "Piriya explains. "Yas is not a slavish copier. He makes creative copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture as Good as Old | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...still chose Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of Parsifal, while Henze is a dedicated Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both are men of the theater: with seven major operas to his credit (and three more on the way), Henze is the foremost figure in the lyric theater today. But Henze disdains the comparison, noting that he cannot bear either Wagner's music or his politics. "You must take your gifts-your means of production-as the tools of a teacher," he says, summing up his activist philosophy. "And you must dedicate your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Marxist Art, Capitalist Style | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...capacity audience-plus 3,000 more Pavarotti fans, watching a closed-circuit broadcast in a nearby auditorium, as well as live-television viewers in Germany, Austria and Spain-saw and heard him struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, for example, and Riccardo in Verdi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What Price Pavarotti Inc.? | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...books and dug out the economic history of Coolidge's White House years. Regan polished up some nuggets from Andrew Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury of those exuberant days. One of them: "If the spirit of business adventure is killed, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world." That is the stuff to swell a supply-sider's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Puritan in the Cabinet Room | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Maryann McEachern has based her campaign on seven points. First and foremost, she is in favor of "maintaining the diversity of the schools and programs." At the same time, she says, the school committee must consider consolidating administrative and clerical costs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirteen Cantabrigians Who Want to Run the City Schools | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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