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With his extra measure of Ponselle's "certain something," Pavarotti occupies a unique position among the tenors of today. Placido Domingo, 38, his nearest rival, has a superbly smooth, rich voice and a wider range of roles?he sings the weighty Othello as well as bel canto parts?but he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Golden Tenor | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

D.B. Benson was an illiterate private when his sergeant told him that he would never make a good soldier and should get out of the Army Air Corps. Benson took him at his word and headed for the rugged Kiamichi Mountains of his native Oklahoma. That was in 1943, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Coming Home | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

But the pain. From the very first shot--of Nick Nolte bleeding through his upturned nose into his pillow--we see the physical agony of these walking receptacles of pus and scars and shattered joints, pumped full of speed and xylocane. Nolte, step by agonizing step, gropes for his painkillers...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

It was the second of the six phased withdrawals prescribed by the pact. Israel ceded to Egypt a 2,500-sq.-mi. stretch of desert coastline and rugged inland mountains along the Gulf of Suez. According to the Israeli interpretation of the treaty, the hand-over was completed two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Flags, Flare-Ups, Fiscal Troubles | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

During down time on his movie sets, for example, he was an inveterate chess player. At home he read Western history and gathered one of the world's finest collections of Hopi Indian kachina dolls. If his right-wing beliefs emblemized a rugged individualism, he also had a reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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