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...round and round by other actors to indicate movement through space or disorientation; a charmingly flustered little girl (Tamsy Johnson) removes her ape head at the end of the show and recites--haltingly--a speech about how she's not really an ape, but the wicked magician cast this spell...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Aladdinescence | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

Some legislators are already quarreling with that interpretation, and 46 Congressmen are co-sponsoring a bill to cut off all military aid to El Salvador, which now gets $10 million a year. But Congress, still under the spell of Reagan's landslide election victory, will probably approve aid in the end and not interfere with the dispatch of advisers, if the Administration finally decides on that step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Subject: Reagan's Foreign Policy | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty and tender, and one leaves under the spell of Ravel's miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Vivid Gallic Trio at the Met | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...gathering momentum for almost 50 years, represents a high-risk gamble. And while much of the nation seems ready to take the chance that less spending and lower taxes will pay off in slower inflation and more economic growth, Americans are waiting anxiously for the program that he will spell out this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unkindest Cuts of All | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

They have moved away now, saying the neighborhood got too crowded. No matter, though; next week new folks, name of Trask, are moving in, just for a spell. They dress and talk funny, and when I asked old Adam Trask where he came from, he declared, "East of Eden." But I think they should fit into Nightsoap just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Season of the Nightsoaps | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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