Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Group Publishers: S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...
...Pagliaccio. Charles Sturridge's essay for La Forza del Destino -- an urban mural of children's faces -- is all dour style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek Jarman's episode, to Charpentier's Louise, imagines an old diva taking a final curtain call, her mind garlanded with...
...scrambling to land academic superstars. The reason for their push to recruit: with the baby boom busted, enrollments have been on a slow but steady slide since 1980. This has prompted even the fussiest schools to adopt glitzy new marketing gimmicks for wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate staged a science fest, where one prospect proved so dazzling that...
...most professional team of air pirates yet encountered, took elaborate precautions against revealing their identities. Yet Washington, citing accounts from released hostages, says one of the gunmen is Hassan Izz-al-Din, a Lebanese who is believed to have been directly involved in the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, speaking in Helsinki en route to pre-summit meetings in Moscow: "I don't think ((releasing the hijackers)) is a proper thing to do." But he declined to "second-guess" Algeria...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Robert T. Zintl...