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...Elliott. He can act and react. He's gifted and malleable. He gave an incredibly controlled performance." Mature and childlike by turns, utterly unaffected yet supremely resourceful as an actor, Thomas is largely responsible for making scenes between a boy and a pile of steel and foam rubber glisten with feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steve's Summer Magic | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...wince or engorge a phrase with acrid humor. More important, McKellen does not make Salieri's early vows of purity plausible. Thus his desired revenge against both God and Mozart verges on lago's malign spirit. No cast under Peter Hall's direction ever fails to glisten with finesse, force and impeccable timing. Jane Seymour plays Mozart's wife Constanze warmly and fetchingly. Nicholas Kepros must also be singled out for the feline subtlety of his portrayal of Emperor Joseph II, brother of Marie Antoinette. Here are the mean, mangling whims of absolute power expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood Feud | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...last. Most of mine don't." Spector challenged the Ramones immediately-"Do you want to make a great album or a good album?" -then spent six months working in the studio, layering and miking guitars so they sound at times almost like chimes, overdubbing the vocals until they glisten like a sonic Simonize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Going After the Real Nuts | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...capital exuded raffish energy from its thriving markets and lively night life. There are no cabarets in Hanoi, and since the departure of the city's Chinese, almost no restaurants. One can visit the Thuy Ta floating cafe at night to drink iced coffee and watch the moon glisten on the Lake of the Returned Sword, but many Hanoi residents consider that an extravagance. On humid summer evenings the largest crowds gather at the grassy esplanade in front of Ho's granite mausoleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Here, Everyone Suffers Equally' | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...their output by 17% to 30% since the Arab oil embargo of 1973; yet many more firms have gone on giddily wasting energy. Consider the beneficial effects of a 20% surtax on the commercial use of electricity: skyscrapers that are lit up all night long and advertising signs that glisten at 4 a.m. would be turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Counter OPEC | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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