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...president of Lincoln Center, professes himself "totally confident that we will be on a pay-cable system in a couple of years," but indications are that Lincoln Center officials are waiting until cable hits the "magic number" of 30% of all TV households reached-which could be in 198 lor later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...brother's life. Lenny Baker is hilarious as Lucio, advocating lechery in the accents of Will Rogers. Director John Pasquin keeps the play moving, even through those last toyings with fate and shotgun marriages whereby the playwright pastes a sickly grin on this mask of tragedy and squa lor. Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's poison-pen letter to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: License in the Park | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Lorincz's offense was that during a parliamentary debate he had compared the chief Ashkenazy rabbi, Shlomo Goren, to Uganda's President Idi Amin, a notorious anti-Semite. "We are sitting in Jerusalem, the city of the Torah, and not in Kampala," remarked Lor-incz as he accused Goren of autocratic tactics in appointing religious judges. The rabbinate's decree cited the 12th century philosopher Maimonides' advocacy of a ban against "he who shames a scholar." Lorincz offered a Talmudic citation in reply: "Where God's name is put to shame, there is no obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...hard to read the book without hoping that the AEC and private manufacturers will indeed tight en what seems to be unbelievably sloppy security. Locations and (in some cases) floor plans of atomic installations can be had from the U.S. Government Printing Office. So, according to Tay lor, can enough declassified hints on bomb making to smooth the way for any halfway-intelligent home hobbyist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bombs in Gilead? | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...that tradition comes The Jockey Club Stakes, and it is a nostal gic delight to have the show in Manhattan. Playwright Home's three central characters are titled racing stewards. Imagine their clubroom pal lor when they discover that a stakes race has been rigged by the wife of the senior board member (Wilfrid Hyde-White). When a priggish socialist peer threatens to expose the affair, this Britannic trio waives the rules and brings the bounder to heel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Up the Union Jack | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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