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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. Because Spielberg has enlisted such directors as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Clint Eastwood, Paul Bartel and Peter Hyams (Mr. E.T. will direct two of his own the first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful parables about death as creative transcendence. Each offers a unique frisson, to be relived on Monday morning at the playground or around the water cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Coming Up From Nowhere | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

Vosgerchian makes an effort to get to know all her students personally, even in her large lectures. She says she knew every one of the 185 students in her fall semester 19th century piano music course. But sometimes getting close to students can produce out-of-classroom benefits...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

Vosgerchian makes an effort to get to know all her students personally, even in her large lectures. She says she knew every one of the 185 students in her fall semester 19th century piano music course. But sometimes getting close to students can produce out-of-classroom benefits...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...defense, since the brother was wielding a pistol. Jerry was a rowdy in his school years, drove cars at 100 m.p.h. and hung around outside a neighborhood cafe late at night with his buddies stopping traffic and taunting motorists. When he proposed marriage to Macel Pate, who played the piano at the Park Avenue Baptist Church, the girl's mother was crestfallen that she had taken up with a Falwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell Spreads the Word | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...first day Bella Davidovich sat down to practice the piano in her new apartment in Queens, N.Y., a neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianist Bella Davidovich: Four Who Brought Talent | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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