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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweating It Out in Miami | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...answer is a) dress-up night on the Blue Lagoon, b) an air-conditioning breakdown at Studio 54, or c) a modeling session for Harper's Bazaar. The question, of course, is what prompted Brooke Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer...

Author: By Mary Humes and Rebecca J. Joseph, S | Title: The Leisure of the Theory Class | 5/26/1982 | See Source »

...13th, in which Mr. Barak Goodman states that "a bruising shell from Yale took a narrow victory from the heavies" at the 1981 EARC sprints. How is this possible? Last year's sprints fell in the middle of exams, and thus Harvard did not on Lake Quinsigamond last year. Geoffrey S. Knauth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Race or Not to Race | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

...effort to keep the peace. Insofar as that effort protects America's true and worthy friends, more power to it. But the American public does not base its affections on anything quite so delicate. And the English should know this now. In the Wall Street Journal, Geoffrey Smith, a columnist with the Times of London, asked not plaintively but properly: "What use is an alliance if your friends will not support you on the merits of the issue when you are in the right?" The answer is: None. If the American Government does not realize this, the people will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Britain: The Firm, Old Alliance | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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