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...then, Europe has always been more generous to jazz; Americans have never quite forgiven jazz its bastard birth in the bordellos of New Orleans' Storyville. "Man, these cats know their stuff," Louis Armstrong once said admiringly of an audience in Geneva. Every year there seem to be more European jazz festivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Silver Newport | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...approaches the eeriness of the dream sequences in "Bell de Jour," and relative newcomers to Bunuel's work should mark down this Sunday's showing as a must-see. One screening will quickly dispel all doubts about Bunuel's unswaying commitment to art over politics--although we would be forgiven for getting the wrong impression from such bourgeois-baiting as "Phantome de la Liberte" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie." While some of the symbolism gets a bit murky--or worse yet, overdone--"Belle de Jour" does leave the movie-goer speechless the first time around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With A Trowel | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...living example that a man can be in the deep freeze for at least two weeks and still live. But then he'd give you that quick thaw. A wink with one of those eyes was just like two cymbals coming together in a clash. He'd forgiven me in one flick of the eyelid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Hemming, Hawing or Quitting | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...largest transfer of convicts begins-but all is not forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yankees Come Home | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...refused to sing Traviata and Macbeth in the same week, Bing fired her. Callas snarled publicly about "those lousy Traviatas that he wanted me to do." Bing riposted: "Mme. Callas is constitutionally unable to fit into any organization not tailored to her own personality." By 1965 almost all was forgiven. Bing brought her back for two Toscas. Justly they became the hottest tickets of the season, for Callas' Tosca was revelatory, not so much a posturing, jealous bitch, as a woman unsettled by fear and made crafty by the desire to save her lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Smoky Voice, A Fiery Lady | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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