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The limos pull up outside the handsome East 63rd Street town house by 8:25 each weekday morning. Within five minutes -- exactly five minutes -- half a dozen regulars at one of Manhattan's most elite breakfast clubs have assembled in a splendidly appointed room graced with a Roy Lichtenstein. Noshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATE CREEP SHOW | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

A petulant but unrepentant Jeff Tarango was hit with the highest fine in Wimbledon tournament history -- $15,500 -- for his outburst on Saturday. The breakdown: $10,000 forverbally abusing an umpire, $5,000 for defaulting the tennis match, and $500 for telling spectators to "shut up." The fine broke the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCREAM NOW, PAY LATER | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

In his creative heyday, Gian Carlo Menotti, 83, was noted more for his dark, neo-Puccini operas, such as The Saint of Bleecker Street and The Medium, than for comedy or farce. In later years, however, the aging composer more than made up for it. The setting was the antebellum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FESTIVALS: CAROLINA'S GRAND NEW OPRY | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

The hero of his umbrous novel Novemberfest (Knopf; 386 pages; $24) is Glen Cady, a 50-year-old professor of German whose young wife Paige goes septic after he is rejected for tenure at his New Hampshire university. Glen is a decent fellow. He was an assembly-line worker in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Divorce Trial | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

The film's essential episode, the disappearance of the petulant Anna (Lea Massari), occurs within the first hour. A luxury yacht's cargo of listless passengers disembarks on a rocky, semi-deserted island. Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Antonioni's Stark View Reinterpretted | 10/20/1994 | See Source »

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