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It's a brisk, bold spectacle, a radical new look at a beloved full-length classic, The Sleeping Beauty. It's not perversely set in a Paris slum or Sherwood Forest, as an avant-gardist might have done. The sumptuous fairy-tale illusion, as well as almost all Petipa's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dawn of the Martins Era | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Fast-forwarded or merely strict, the pace is a challenge to the dancers, particularly the ballerina who plays the heroine, Princess Aurora. She must appear to be a quicksilver sprite, but with only one intermission, the role is brutal. Of the five alternating ballerinas, the radiant Darci Kistler best maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dawn of the Martins Era | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Critics pan most of Hubbard's books as unreadable, while defectors claim that church insiders are sometimes the real authors. Even so, Scientology has sent out armies of its followers to buy the group's books at such major chains as B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks to sustain the illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

"We have always been abominable in supporting local public schools. In terms of excellence below the college level, Massachusetts is living an illusion."

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Sen. Barrett Calls for a Longer School Year | 5/1/1991 | See Source »

Watching a game in Detroit is a graduate course in capturing the magic of the old-time ball parks. Unlike the ivy-clad perfection of Wrigley Field or the self-congratulatory ugliness of Fenway Park, 79-year-old Tiger Stadium represents the last remaining link with baseball before it became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking The Field of Dreams | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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