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What Barber has here is a typical church choir, 18 or so voices, some by their own description small, some serviceable, with a few gorgeous ones folded in; four of them belong to paid section leaders, and the rest are volunteers. Most are under 40; they are suburban and modestly affluent. Many of them have come here from other denominations; they like the loftiness of Episcopal ritual -- what one of them terms "smells and bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Blending Voices | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Paul is so gorgeous that they threw him rightinto leading men parts, and he is uncomfortablewith that," Lumet said. "He is best at characterparts like in "The Verdict," and that is thechallenge I faced directing...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Lumet Laments State of Film-Making, Fears Schlock Will Become Standard | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

...Cruise film Top Gun, about U.S. Navy pilots training to be "the best of the best," had all the ingredients for a hit: a brash beefcake hero and a gorgeous, throaty-voiced heroine (Kelly McGillis), a pop-music sound track and MTV-style visual pyrotechnics. But the truly impressive stars of the film are its sleek, roaring fighter jets. Featured in thrilling aerial sequences, they make modern-day dogfights seem like the ultimate video game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Goes Hollywood | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...natural that Diane Legge Lohan, being a partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Chicago office, designs rather conventionally modern corporate buildings. But in her printing plant for the Boston Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: An a List for the Baby Boom | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Brody, the nation's High Priestess of Health. At the meeting of the two unrestrained Janes, though, it all worked out true to form. Brody, after politely complimenting Fonda on her latest exercise tape ("It's not boring"), quickly got down to business. "How come you always put such gorgeous women in your videotapes?" she asked. "Can't you find any that ordinary people could identify with? I tried the stretches in your first tape and couldn't do them; I'd break in half. You should take a look at underwear. I can't find a leotard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: See Jane Run (and Do Likewise) | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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