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...exercise began, ships and planes fired surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles at target drones overhead. F-14 Tomcats, the U.S. Navy's hottest and most versatile fighter planes, flew combat air patrol, or CAP in military parlance, watching for intruding aircraft and warning off the unwary. Since the landfall to the south was Libya, led by the unpredictable and often hostile Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and since U.S. and French aircraft had been harassed over the Mediterranean by Libyan planes, the U.S. pilots were ready for trouble. To the north of the F-14s flew two carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Shootout over the Med | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...composer-in-residence at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico. At 42, Harbison is developing a greater depth of ex pression with each new work. His heightening eloquence stamps him as a leader in music's humanistic revival - and has made him one of the hottest composers around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer with a Hot Hand | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Begotten by the electronics revolution, the thoroughly modern media room comprises an eye-and ear-boggling assemblage of spectacle and sound. According to industry executives, costly home entertainment equipment is among the hottest merchandise around. Scores of specialty shops with names like Video Concepts and Videomart have sprung up to supply sophisticated gadgetry to home-media junkies. Annual stereo and video sales across the country are running at about $2 billion. Says Walter Fisher, Zenith Radio Corp. marketing executive vice president: "The revolution in entertainment electronics has hit not only the high-technology stores but the American lifestyle as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Entertainment on the House | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Since its May opening, Cats has been London's hottest ticket. The show's composer and director plan to visit New York City soon to entertain bids for a Broadway version of Cats from some of the same angels who thought the project too risky to invest in when it needed funds a few months ago. So the Prince of Wales and his bride-to-be are not the only British couple who have reason to smile these days. Catch Lloyd Webber or Nunn off-guard, and you are likely to see a mile-wide Cheshire-cat grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Going to London to See the Queen? | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...giving concert performances, often with Bissell, and once failed to go on at the last moment. After several long talks, A.B.T. took back the pair three weeks ago, and Baryshnikov announced that he was satisfied they were making progress on the problems that caused their dismissal. Right now the hottest ticket in town is for May 2, Gelsey's first Giselle since her return, with Misha. The stormy partnership goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Baryshnikov Remodels the A.B.T. | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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