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...tines haven't changed. Queen Elizabeth II was in the Western U.S. last week for a ten-day visit, before heading up to British Columbia and, this Friday, back home. Sumptuous feastings? There was everything from maple soufflé and rack of lamb (and 1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild) to a hot heap of chiles rellenos and refried beans. Banquets? In Los Angeles, the Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Queen Makes A Royal Splash | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...game for dinner parties. I ask presidential critics of either far right or left what they will do next year if the economy really is better and the nukes are still in their silos. One fellow nearly choked on his lamb chop. Most have only a second or two of panic before they assemble their rebuttals on Reagan's "luck" (the oil glut) and "providence" (Brezhnev died). Who was the guy who wrote that if we've got to have a lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Nothing Irks Like Success | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...absorb the sense of what was said ... During this period he got as hopelessly absent-minded as he ever has been ... When he was doing chores he would be thinking about the work ... Once when laying the table he put down knife, fork and glass for [his character] Sergeant Lamb. He did not do this, however, for Jesus Christ when he was working on King Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books: Feb. 7, 1983 | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...Lange finds that her most challenging current role is warding off rumors that she has become a temperamental star. "I wish all the people so up in arms and offended by my behavior had met Frances," says Lange. "She tore people to pieces. I'm like a lamb compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1983 | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...rich musical heritage, young Jimmy Levine could pull himself up to the family Chickering piano and pick out tunes before he was two years old. When little more than an infant, he once astonished his father, a former bandleader, by spotting the rhythm of Mary Had a Little Lamb when it was idly drummed on a tabletop. Piano lessons came at four, recitals at six. In 1953, age ten, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony, performing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of the Met: James Levine is the most powerful opera conductor in America | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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