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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view of the work. But there can be no disputing the high quality of the vocalism. Since 1976, there has been a director's Ring (Patrice Chereau's Wagner-as-social-revolution) and a conductor's Ring (Sir Georg Solti's at Bayreuth in 1983). Here, at last, a singer's Ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Last, a Singer's Ring | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...heard of the change. Two weekends ago, Overstreet sold the last of his stock, at $1.25 a 6 1/2-oz. bottle, or $30 a case. "They lined up around the block," he said. "It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life." One customer: Rock Singer Al Stewart (Time Passages), who called from London and put five cases on his American Express card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Afizz Over the New Coke | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...Saturday. Algerian officials authorized the landing on condition that the hijackers not use violence. Before leaving Beirut, it turned out, the hijackers had demanded that Ali Atwa be released by Greek authorities and brought to Algiers. Otherwise, they said, they would kill all eight Greeks on the plane, including Singer Demis Roussos. Greek authorities complied and sent Atwa to Algiers in an Olympic Airways plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Aboard Flight 847 | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...York City Opera General Director BEVERLY SILLS at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.: "When I told my father I wanted to be an opera star -- not an opera singer, you understand, but a star -- he said, 'The best thing that could happen to you is that you will get married early and have babies because nice women don't go on the stage. If you don't get married early and it looks as if you are going to be an old maid, well then, we will think about college because then at least you can be a schoolteacher, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Prospects, Old Values | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

ENGAGED. Carly Simon, 39, prolific pop singer-songwriter (her 13th album, Spoiled Girl, is scheduled for release next month); and Russ Kunkel, 36, rock drummer. The two met when he was playing backup for Simon's ex-husband, Folk Balladeer James Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 10, 1985 | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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