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...wait! Things are changing. Thirty years after its Communist revolution, China may now be ready for the sexual revolution. If so, historians will undoubtedly hail an unreconstructed capitalist as point man in the Great Leap Sexward. The man, naturellement, is Pierre Cardin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Paris Fashions Go to Peking | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...year-old Moslem religious leader of Iran's anti-shah movement went to a ground-floor window of the building and waved to the crowds as they streamed past. Many chanted "Hail Khomeini!" and "Death to Bakhtiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Khomeini Demands Power; Bakhtiar Vows to Remain | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

STRANGE THINGS are happening Down Under. Thunder crackles across cloudless skies, huge chunks of hail fall in the desert, black rain plops eerily down on Sydney. What could possibly be causing it all? The National Weather Bureau assures everyone that these mysterious phenomena are only the side effects of industrial pollution. But are they? As thousands of tiny frogs appear in the city's streets and the sky takes on a pulsing violet glow, it looks like there might be something a bit more sinister than carbon monoxide behind Sydney's strange weather, something far more deadly...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...prologue promised opera on a grand scale. An eerie rumble of double basses and tympani built in the pit. Then a beam of light stabbed down onto the blackened stage, illuminating the figure of the blind poet Milton (Arnold Moss). "Hail, holy light!" he intoned. The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heavenly Bore | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson itself acknowledged that there are "risks" in accepting Brustein's plan, but it chose to downplay those risks. It seems that those students who hail Brustein's appointment as a major achievement are basing their optimism on two very tenuous assumptions...

Author: By Stephen J. Toope, | Title: Brustein Boosters, Beware | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

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