Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to miss Two of a Kind. Five years ago, these two appealing stars teamed for the monster hit Grease. Now Writer-Director John Herzfeld has chosen a different 1978 hit to emulate and trash: Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy, not the melodrama, not even the food fight in the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel. A stupefying shambles, Two of a Kind just noses out Staying Alive for Worst...
...centrifuge, which had begun on the ground and continued in orbit. These are designed not only to discover ways of coping with space sickness but also to learn whether any significant physiological changes occurred after ten days of weightlessness. Until these examinations are finished this Thursday, the guinea pig quartet must remain in isolation. They can take comfort in the thought that their dedication is bringing the day closer when ordinary mortals will follow the current space voyagers on the way to the stars. Assuming, of course, that NASA gets those balky computers to behave themselves. -By Frederic Golden. Reported...
Significant premieres by two of today's leading composers might help to change that attitude, however. In Washington two weeks ago, Mstislav Rostropovich led the National Symphony Orchestra in the eight completed movements of Krzysztof Penderecki's Polish Requiem, a work in progress for vocal quartet and chorus that promises to be a major statement, both musically and politically, when it is finished some time next year. And last week in Paris, Seiji Ozawa presided over the world premiere of Olivier Messiaen's first opera, Saint François d'Assise, which is clearly intended...
...students, the experiment is a risky way to spend one-third of their Law School stay. But for the quartet of professors, the experiment is the first step towards an entirely new approach to legal education...
...rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan knows that unless he kills them first the four will most certainly kill him, as soon as his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before he has received his own death-wound. In the Coast...