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...Arthur Miller's CBS-TV drama Playing for Time. Politics also excluded her from being cast in the Broadway drama Plenty. That same year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, allegedly fearful of disruptions and of losing donor support, dumped Redgrave from scheduled performances as narrator of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. She brought a civil rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand a judgment of $39,500 to cover lost employment -- an amount far smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Vanessa Ascending | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...crouch low near the water's edge, you can see in the shallows of $ the high tide an awesome spectacle that has been recurring since before Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth: the mating dance of the horseshoe crab, one of nature's ugliest and kinkiest creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Jersey Shoreline | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city, has a dimmer view. "East St. Louis today doesn't even have bootstraps," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East St. Louis, Illinois | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend to be depressed in adolescence whether they are from broken or intact families. Says psychologist Rex Forehand of the University of Georgia in Athens: "The answer on long-term effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Lasting Wounds of Divorce | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...inconvenience for the new occupant of the grandest working home in the U.S. "It has never been in better shape," says Chief Usher Gary Walters, whose staff of 93 chases the dust tracked in by a million and a half tourists a year. The thought is echoed by curator Rex Scouten, who presides over the 38,000 pieces of art, furniture and tableware in the White House collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The $50 Million Face-Lift | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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