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...eyes; a romantic gallant (Mark Linn-Baker) who is haunted by nightmares of dismemberment and memories of an unsuitable recent job sweeping up dead dogs from the road; a sometime belle (Patricia Richardson) who finds it easy to leave her husband but impossible to abandon her clock col lection; and a carnival balloon salesman (Budge Threlkeld), cheerfully wondering which of the three major diseases inhabiting his body will kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jagged Flashes of Inspiration | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Monteverdi's Contemporaries (The Early Music Consort of London, David Mun-row, conductor; Angel). A fascinating col lection of sacred and profane music by nine little-known Italian composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, performed on such authentic instruments as sackbut, recorder and shawm. As usual with the Consort, the playing (and in the mot ets, singing) is of the highest quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic&Choice | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Sullivan said she believed the timing of the lection and Harvard's "intense campaign against the union" contributed to District 65's defeat...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: District 65 Will Try to Organize Again | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

...never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they git there. The young lovers fall out -but not out of the pitcher, unfortunately. Grandpa gits so riled he won't even conduct the family bane no more. The argyments continue up to ee-lection night, when Benjamin Harrison beats out Grover (hope that don't spile the suspense none). In the end, the couple gits reunited o'course, Grandpa picks up his baton, and it's choke-up time again, bringin' tears to the eyes and a lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

High Water-Wood, in the Hulton col lection, belongs to Klee's final works. It was painted in 1938, after Nazi interference had driven him back to Bern. Klee was dying of a rare disease which produced progressive drying of his body tis sues, and he knew it. Painted on newspaper with thick paint and broad strokes, High Water-Wood is one of the most private of Klee's works. Areas of green, yellow and blue are laid out with perfect harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Magician's Handwriting | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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