Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America," Stage Designer Boris Aronson once said, "you are a genius at 18 and finished at 30." Aronson seemed almost finished at 60, yet when he died at 80, in 1980, he was widely recognized as a genius. The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson, by Frank Rich with Lisa Aronson (Knopf; 323 pages; $75), shows why. The authors (respectively, the drama critic of the New York Times and the artist's widow) use photos and Aronson's vivid sketches and paintings to document the bulk of his more than 100 designs, including Broadway's The Crucible, The Diary of Anne...
Tchaikovsky conducted there, 16-year-old Jascha Heifetz astonished its audiences, Arthur Rubinstein made his U.S. debut upon its stage. Yet classical concerts are only a part of Carnegie Hall's history. Audiences have been harangued by Winston Churchill, diverted by Lenny Bruce and serenaded by Frank Sinatra, who observed that "performing in Carnegie Hall is like playing in the Super Bowl." These and many more celebrities make dazzling reappearances in Richard Schickel and Michael Walsh's Carnegie Hall: The First 100 Years (Abrams; 263 pages; $49.50), a valentine by two TIME critics who are manifestly in love with...
...minority of the economists, though, were concerned about the outlook for inflation. Kemper's Hale is worried that in its rush to downsize, corporate America may have set the stage for capacity shortages that could create bottlenecks and drive up prices. Says he: "We have now had five years of underinvestment in manufacturing. The new lean and mean strategy may simply represent a form of corporate anorexia...
...orchestra started again before the lights went down and the crowd immediately fell quiet. The curtain rose on ethereal angels with silver lyres, that looked like K-Mart specials. Then the angels floated off stage (and with them the dry ice that had provided a Vegas air to the scene), and our hero and heroine returned--in a balloon...
First coffee--in the form of Spanish dancers, castanets in hand--and then tea--sensuous gymnasts whose physical stunts amaze. Cossack dancers kick and flip over the stage. Chinese dancers come with small attendants who wave long, sinuous orange silk banners. Tutued marzipan with silly caps and then roses, with skirts of petals...