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Extravaganzas like this are what give opera both a good and a bad name. Even though the music drama ought to be the focus of attention, there has always been a fascination with sets, props and costumes. At a conservative museum like the Met, which has not presented a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franco Zeffirelli in Chinatown and a new Turandot at the Met | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan did not build a structure; he cast a spell. There was no Reagan revolution, just a Reagan bedazzlement. The magic is going off almost as mysteriously as the spell was woven in the first place. There is no edifice of policies solid enough to tumble, piece by piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: What Happened? | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

The high-flying hardware turns Top Gun into a 110-minute commercial for the Navy -- and it was the Navy's cooperation that put the planes in the picture. The producers paid the military $1.8 million for the use of Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, four aircraft carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Goes Hollywood | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

The role of outsiders in South Africa has never been great, but there are things that can be done to help the forces of change in South Africa. One of these has been clear from the beginning, and that is to remove those economic props which have aided the apartheid...

Author: By Everett I. Mendelsohn, | Title: Working for an End to Apartheid | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

That history is almost as old as the night. In the Odyssey, Odysseus visited the land of the dead, where he reported that "pale fear got hold of me" as the spirits rose up to drink blood. Every ethnic group has spun folktales of the ungrateful dead. Even so, horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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