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Although recognizing that few black athletes completely conquer the commercial barriers, particularly on television, Douglas extravagantly figures, "Carl Lewis will be as big as Michael Jackson." Lewis mulls it over and says, "Physically, definitely. I can't sing as well as he does, and I don't think he can run as fast as I do, so I don't fear him, and there's no reason for him to fear me." He laughs, but then he adds seriously, "When you have money, you have a lot of freedom. It's no big deal, but I understand its value." Regarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: No Limit to What He Can Do | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...abstraction and fitfully wanders, but presently it comes up red and writhing again, straining to get loose. Waiting casts one's life into a little dungeon of time. It is a way of being controlled, of being rendered immobile and helpless. One can read a book or sing (odd looks from the others) or chat with strangers if the wait is long enough to begin forming a bond of shared experience, as at a snowed-in airport. But people tend to do their waiting stolidly. When the sound system went dead during the campaign debate in 1976, Jerry Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Waiting as a Way of Life | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...continued to stick by its story that Aquino was killed by a hired gunman in a Communist plot. Justice Agrava did little to appease suspicions that her board has been too soft on government witnesses: at the end of Mrs. Marcos' testimony, Agrava asked everyone present to sing Happy Birthday to the First Lady, who turned 55 that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Girl Scout's Day in Court | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Choruses all over the country, and indeed the world, sing his inspired songs," said Elliot Forbes, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus, and a friend of the composer since 1928. "The performing of his music will be an ongoing living testamony to the beauty of his creative spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Professor Emeritus Dies At Age 85 | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...made What's New, a hit album of '30s and '40s classics. After the current eight-week tour, Ronstadt and Riddle will begin recording a second collection of old standards. And this fall Ronstadt will return to the Public Theater in New York City to sing Mimi in an English version of Puccini's La Boheme. What next, Gregorian chant for soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 9, 1984 | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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