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...CONTINENTS. For Hall, it has been a rough year on the roller coaster of notoriety, after triumphs in 1982 at the National (including Harold Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Perils of Being Sir Peter | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...addition to ice skating, Ignazio said the rink could be used for roller skating, tennis, bingo games and movie screenings...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Cambridge May Gain Municpal Skating Rink | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

...Riding a roller coaster is a Coleco tradition. Maurice Greenberg, a Russian immigrant, started the Connecticut Leather Co. in Hartford in 1932 to sell supplies to shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s. They shifted from leather into plastics and soon became the world's largest manufacturer of above-ground swimming pools. That was a seasonal business, so they bought a snowmobile manufacturer and suffered heavy losses during the mild winter that followed. They admired Atari's pioneering home video game, Pong, and they made a fortune on an imitation named Telstar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Cabbage Patch Craze | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...could be more than that, if the Crimson can learn from this roller-coaster week, integrate some of that sparkling new talent, and strengthen the offense...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Women Cagers Fall Again | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...tale begins with Sherry (Kathleen Patrick) deciding to drop out of university in her senior year give up her valedictorianship, and immerse herself in books until she finds a way to stop the rampant murders. The story is narrated by Doony (Kirsten Giroux), Sherry's younger sister, who, while roller skating across stage, explains that Sherry has tried "poli-sci" and "psych-o-logy" and has now turned to her first love--mythology and folklore...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Missing the Punch Line | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

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