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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's three less well-known choreographers had their difficulties. Peter Martins did a brief, saucy Piano-Rag-Music for Darci Kistler, showing this explosive teenage star as a Ginger Rogers in pointe shoes. His longer work, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, illustrated just how recalcitrant Stravinsky can be: Martins' formidable clarity and order were exhausted by the endless drill of notes. Jacques d'Amboise's Serenade en la had one irresistible sequence: a lighthearted duet for two very short girls (Stacy Caddell and Nichol Hlinka), in which the arms are usually joined but the steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Stravinsky II: A Hit Sequel | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...satellites. Now everything is coming together. Video is the place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney's vid mag, the zippiest of the small field, suggests some piquant possibilities for reaching a wider audience. If snappy visuals can make the rag trade look exciting, consider what video could do with show biz. Variety on video could be the Ed Sullivan Show of the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tips on Tape | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...might have been like had I spent more time in Winthrop House. This kind of retrospective uncertainty, though, seems unavoidable and healthy I am glad no one told me what to do, and if there are any regrets about the number of hours I spent putting out this rag, they pale in comparison to the satisfaction obtained both from giving one thing my best shot and from knowing that I survived my first real test of options...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Seeking Lost Scholarship and Getting Out the 'Extra' | 6/9/1982 | See Source »

WHAT DID A NICE big green college like Dartmouth ever do to deserve a tawdry little rag like The Dartmouth Review...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Crying Out in Ignorance | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...zeal for scribbling led to journalism; he became a major socialist writer and editor, with a talent for extremist invective. "The national flag is for us a rag to plant on a dunghill," he wrote in the years before World War I when he was a strong internationalist. But Mussolini could believe almost anything passionately, and not long after a dispute led him to split with the Socialists, he established a new party, the Fascists, molding it along the lines of his own erratic and opportunistic temperament. As he described it, the party was "super-relativist," with only one guiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Views of a Little Caesar | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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