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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certainly is. At one point he suggests putting a small bottle of oil to the ear, the better to hear the ancient waters. At another he intones, "You can't find oil if you are not honest; I'm not sure I know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At Play in Fields of Energy | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: From Leningrad with Love | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...task of getting the information -- by canvassing thousands of coroners, police desks and sheriffs' offices from coast to coast -- was logistically awesome. It would have been impossible without TIME's national reporting network, which includes 62 correspondents in ten bureaus plus more than 200 stringers, or part-time reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jul 17 1989 | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...musicals he loved. Rather than the usual lineup of leggy girls scantily clad in slinky dresses, he pictured beribboned beauties in floor-length ball gowns. Lee failed to anticipate the outrage of campus males when they learned they would be deprived of the show of flesh that was traditionally part of homecoming. A group ganged up on the young producer, threatening to beat him up. But Lee stood firm. "In the end he did it his way," recalls Monty Ross, a friend from Lee's college days and vice president of his production company, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIKE LEE: He's Got To Have It His Way | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...cool strategic thinker, a shrewd businessman and cunning marketer. He plans each detail of his productions down to the last frame, in part, says Ross, to counter the racial stereotype that blacks are slipshod businessmen. His marketing sense extends beyond his proven ability to reach an audience; he has cultivated a brand awareness of himself. Making a movie isn't enough, he says. "We're up against the giants trying to hold our own." Stacks of Do the Right Thing T shirts were poised ready for distribution before the film opened. A journal chronicling the making of the film, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIKE LEE: He's Got To Have It His Way | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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