Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enterprise this huge, of course, there will be misses as well as hits, and Sellars has his share. Particularly in Gotterdammerung--where many critics say Wagner's inspiration failed him--Sellars falters too. Splicing in whole minutes of Kurt Weill music to back up the leather-jacketed, bar-stool Gibichungs may be a justified comment on their theatrical value in Wagner's original scheme. It also, however, shatters with an axe-stroke of cynicism the mood of benign humor that prevails until them. The musical effect is appalling, the lapse in taste alarming...
...Palace recalls an 18th century European royal court. At the top of a sweeping, crimson-carpeted-staircase, huge chandeliers dominate the great hall where Cabinet ministers, ambassadors and favor-seekers wait to be received in audience. Inside the President's book-lined office, rows of brown leather chairs lead to his desk, which stands on a raised platform flanked by Philippine flags. In a palace interview last week with TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro, Marcos exuded confidence as he talked about the future of his regime and his country. Despite rumors that he has serious medical problems the slender...
...thought we had given so-called 'punk rock' a bad enough name--what with the chains, the leather and Sid Vicious' 'suicide'--but then the critics turned around and called it 'new wave.' We thought disco would bring home the bacon, but what has John Travolta done for us lately? We thought the days of the early 1970s would go on forever, the time when we could deal with a few big names like Elton John, Wings, Lead Dirigible, whoever. But we didn't have it wired...
...starting to see real concern about these issues," Brewer says, adding that he doubts the University is bent on hell-for-leather growth. "New fields of study will open up over the years, and a few of the schools may grow. That may mean putting up some new buildings and renovating some old ones, but the growth won't ever be anything of the same magnitude we saw 15 years ago," he said. The community is also concerned about the danger University growth might pose to access to rental housing among Cantabrigians of "all income mixes," Brewer said. "The character...
...months and recruited more than three dozen writers from such places as the Lampoon, the New York Times, Harper's, TIME, New York magazine and The New Yorker. George Plimpton wrote an unsigned parody of Truman Capote's long-unfinished Answered Prayers ("He thought about the smooth leather of the banquettes under his rear end and how he would look out and think about his enemies"). Fugitive Abbie Hoffman mailed in word of the Checker Cab Co.'s new nonpolluting taxi: a rickshaw pulled by a jogger and known as the Chinese Checker...