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...string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three Who Add Up to One | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Englander who once worked in the campaign to free Sacco and Vanzetti, Crouter viewed World War II as a tiresome family quarrel, and not a fit activity for respectable adults. Her book (Forbidden Diary, $14.95, to be published next month by Burt Franklin & Co.) is remarkable for the interplay it creates between that view and the delicate Japanese-American minuet at the camp. In some ways, the book also sheds light on the ordeals of today's hostages in Tehran and Bogota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Americans in Captivity | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...strictly idealistic reasons, says Castro) to foreign ventures. Castro has just personally taken over six Cabinet posts to gain tighter control over economic affairs. In two recent meetings in Havana with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan, Castro talked of the interplay between Cuba, the U.S., Russia and the Third World. He still insisted on Russia's peaceful intention.* Excerpts from the 4½ hours of conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Fidel Castro | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Benton's consistent direction and Nestor Almendros' crisp photography channel these superb performances into a cohesive film. Several of the best sequnces include Hoffman and downstairs neighbor Margaret (Jane Alexander). The interplay between the two (they were opposite each other in a short scene in All the President's Men) establishes a new type of man-woman-in-the-movies relationship; they are friends, very strong friends, but just that. Alexander's performance is crucial to the success of the film, as she moves with the audience's feelings, first sympathetic to Joanna's plight and gradually realizing that...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Hoffman vs. Streep | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

There are bound to be more satisfying and fundamental explanations for the recurring shortcomings of forecasting and prophecy. In fact, there are three distinct reasons, among which the interplay is intimate and intricate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Why Forecasters Flubbed the '70s | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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