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...little more than kissing cousins. Act I recounts a Christmas episode in which an accident befalling a nutcracker, the favorite present of Clara Stahlbaum, triggers a dream. Toys come to life. A platoon of mice invades her parlor. The nutcracker turns into a prince who leads his young mistress on an imaginary journey to the Kingdom of Sweets. The second act is usually a froth of dazzling leaps, spins and exuberant folk-flavored dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baryshnikov's New, Bold Nutcracker | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Tis the Nutcracker Season | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...mistress Sin, sore-tempts her hellish mate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...mistress, and his paramour, of joys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

Soapy Roles. There are also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Clock | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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