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Word: musicale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glass's musical background is strictly classical. When he was eight, he began flute lessons at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, his home town. At 14, he passed an early entrance exam for the University of Chicago and subsequently enrolled. After Chicago came five years at Juilliard as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What's in a Melody? | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

One is inclined to absolve Travolta, since the rest of Grease offers abundant evidence that there was no one behind the lens capable of giving him any guidance. Some of the musical numbers are staged, for no particular reason, as white-on-white stylizations, à la Busby Berkeley, while others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Hole | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Legras might have fared even worse in the U.S. Almost all U.S. law schools teach the common law doctrine that "spring guns," booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Burglars and Booby Traps | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

That compassion is evident once again in his newest work, Creve Coeur. Unfortunately, some of the gifts that have made Williams such a formidable dramatist are sadly in abeyance. The pulse of conflict beats feebly. The surge of musical eloquence, which was once like a river cresting in flood, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Women Alone | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Whenever Robert Klane gets a good musical number going, he cuts to one of these primitive, predictably developed stories. Whenever one of them threatens to become mildly interesting, he zooms back to the music. The result is a movie that, with much false cheer, provides nothing for everybody, though several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wrong Night | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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