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...however, Emmons sheds his elfin aspect; in addition to his wonderful first duet with Elsie, he shows flashes of strong, satisfying comic talent in the "Creeping, Crawling" duet with Wilfred in Act Two. He also shines in the operetta's finale, bursting on the scene singing movingly the last refrain of "I Have a Song," and perishing. His actual death is regrettably melodramatic, but again, this is perhaps O'Neill's fault...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A G & S Surprise | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

Though Japanese restaurants have popped up like bean sprouts throughout the U.S., all but the most intrepid American cooks refrain from emulating their cuisine. A pity. For, as Master Chef and Teacher Shizuo Tsuji demonstrates hi Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (Kodansha; $14.95), Japanese food at its best is intrinsically austere, as much a matter of balance-texture, flavors, colors and freshness-as anything else. Not unlike Escoffier and the gurus of nouvelle cuisine, the Japanese chef insists: "Let little seem like much, as long as it is fresh and beautiful." Tsuji, a former journalist with a degree in French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Well-Laden Table of Cookbooks | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Coach Hunt couldn't refrain from gloating. "We met the cream and we weren't intimidated. I'm just so pleased...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Harriers Shine in Rain-Soaked Seattle | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...treated in solemn detail. On the Beatles: "Early style is typified by She Loves You (1963), with its duple metre, almost hypnotic beat, pentatonic melody, 32-bar song form and tonic-mediant tonal relationship; its text concerns adolescent love, and has a quasi ritualistic 'yeah, yeah, yeah' refrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Grove of Treasures | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

UNTIL THE CORE is fully implemented, it may prove prudent for the subcommittees to refrain from imposing themselves on professors teaching Core courses. But what's politic is not always what's right. The people working on the Core have an obligation to create a standardized method for regularly reviewing offerings in the program. Establishing student-Faculty committees to evaluate courses in each of the five Core areas and then report their findings would prove workable and beneficial. But no system will work without the cooperation of professors teaching in the Core. For the sake of the program and students...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Keeping the Core From Rotting | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

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