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...show, also mounted the first version of the musical hit Les Miserables, though in static, arena-style tableaux rather than the Broadway staging. Radio City executive producer Scott Sanders likens Jesus to Les Miz. Says he: "These shows offer pain, despair and suffering followed by hope, ending in a joyous feeling of power and faith. That is quality family entertainment." With both Jesus and Les Miz, Hossein has not so much told a story as relied on audiences to know it already. Jesus neither starts with the birth of its hero nor ends with his death, and it is decidedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Story Ever Sold | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Rogers is cracking up, and not all that slowly. She is married to a bright, fairly sympathetic fellow who restores houses, and she is a successful partner in a business that makes videos of weddings. Makes, in fact, seamlessly joyous videos of weddings often awkward and sour, which is an art, and one she is good at. But her hobbies, shoplifting clothes from Bergdorf and ingesting methamphetamine, which she does quite often from the tip of her jackknife blade, don't foretell a long and happy life. She is a diabetic, in addition, and her meth addiction worsens a deteriorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striptease In a Taxi | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Conservative guru Bill Buckley recalled that 21 years ago he was in the Great Hall in Beijing deploring Richard Nixon's joyous cavorting with the Red Chinese leaders. Curtain coming down on a long ideological reign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Last Roll Call For the Reaganauts | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Baez also played plenty of old favorites with newfound verve, including her chart-topping hit "Diamonds and Rust" and her joyous ode to life, "Gracias a la Vida." She had the audience clapping and joining in the chorus of "The Night Old Dixie Came To Town...

Author: By Ganesh Ramakrishnan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Joan Baez Rekindles Magic of Past | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

With his computer-like mind and his joyous addiction to pressing the flesh, Clinton was a brilliant campaigner. Almost too brilliant: toward the end his biggest vulnerability was his reputation as a dexterous accommodator, the schoolboy politician perennially concerned about preserving his political viability. On one of his last nights on the trail, Clinton told a crowd that Teddy Roosevelt had shaken thousands of hands at his Inauguration. "Maybe this is a record I will break," Clinton exulted. Maybe, but once he takes office the born pleaser will have to master a different art: that of displeasing people. He will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time for Courage | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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