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SHOW BOAT (EMI). The classic Mississippi musical jes' keeps rollin' along, here with such stern-wheeling operatic voices as Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. The first recording that is completely faithful to the original Kern-Hammerstein score reveals a raw, powerful, even angry work. And you thought it was "only make-believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 14, 1988 | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...Hmmph!" she snorts. "You can take it, cowboy. Jes' go on back to your filthy c-countess. I ain't never...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...clear majority of Americans are either white male anglo-saxons or would like to think of themselves as part of the white male anglo-saxon mainstream. And in the South, where everybody attributes the racial gap in voting patterns to blind racism, the Democrats have yet to give 'jes plain folks a good reason not to vote...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Beyond the Pall | 11/14/1984 | See Source »

...will be held in Buenos Aires, which will put hard-lining Argentina in a diplomatically stronger position. The group last week also produced 24 proposals for easing the cost of their debt, ranging from longer periods of repayment to reduced interest rates. One plan, suggested by Mexican Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog, calls for Latin borrowers to pay a level of interest tied to the rates on bank certificates of deposit, currently about 11½%. This would give debtors a break of about 2½%, worth some $7 billion annually, while still allowing the banks to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gathering Storm | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...Jesús Sarmiento lived with relatives in Miami while he learned English and prepared for an entrance exam to Florida International University. Last April, Sarmiento became the first Marielito to earn an FLU. engineering degree. When he is not out looking for work, like any new graduate, he fiddles with programs on his home computer. "To think," marvels Sarmiento, "back in Cuba I didn't own even a pocket calculator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working Hard Against an Image | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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