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Bianca feels safe when she is at home in front of the television. When Jem, a shapely, superstar rock singer who is the title character of her favorite cartoon show, shakes her radiant pink hair and makes her magical red earrings sparkle, Bianca is transported into another world. Jem embodies what Bianca would like to be as an adult: sexy, a singer and a success. "I don't want to be a maid at hotels when I grow up," says Bianca. "That's what my auntie is. She works for a hotel in the French Quarter. I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: Bianca, New Orleans | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...ensemble of synthesizers, amplified winds and wordless soprano voice, 1000 Airplanes resurrects the hoary genre of the melodrama. As a musical term, melodrama refers to a composition in which one or more actors recite to musical accompaniment. Schubert's world-weary Abschied von der Erde and Ralph Vaughan Williams' radiant An Oxford Elegy are examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Opera As Science Fiction | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...Sunrise, Textile Artist Maya Romanoff adorned the building with 28 brightly colored canvas strips, each 6 ft. wide and 120 ft. long. Suspended from the seventh-floor terrace and hanging down to the edge of the Chicago River, the work offers a billowing spectacle of warm yellow-oranges and radiant blue- greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Draping an Old Eyesore | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...vivacious twelve-year-old who reads John Updike, finds Nancy Drew too predictable, and recites T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi in a clipped British accent. A pianist, she talks enthusiastically about her favorite composers, Bach and Mozart. With her charm, dancing eyes and radiant smile, Vera Zieman should be one of the most popular girls in her Moscow school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely World of a Refusenik | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...With a radiant look of joy creasing his face, the conductor breaks the bonds of gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Only Poetry Played Here | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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