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...Love You Madly" used a great bit of stage business, bringing the entire cast out from under a giant envelope onstage, but Banks's deep-chested, poignant singing elevated the song from cuteness. Griffin made "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" the model of a torch song, alone on stage with nothing but a non-functional microphone, a spotlight and her voice--but that was enough. Hays deserves the garland for the single most beautiful song of the evening; "Don't You Know I Care" in her hands, from her mouth, melted away into perfection...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Getting the Swing | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...into it by Simon's engagingly backhanded ploys. They collaborate blissfully, move in together and then face a period of maladjustment. Away from his piano, Vernon is a bundle of neuroses and almost inarticulate about his deepest feelings. Candid beyond discretion, Sonia seems to be carrying a guttering torch for a phone nemesis named Leon who calls at all hours, preferably 3 a.m. After some murky psychologizing about the schizophrenic difficulties of living and working together, the pair split and, copybook fashion, kiss and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love in Bloom | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Myers' spruce now has 1,500 small gold lights, a gold garland, red star ornaments, gold balls and a star on top (placed by Amy Carter) that has a torch modeled after the one held by the Statue of Liberty. This Thursday (Dec. 14) Jimmy Carter plans to throw the switch and let the lights shine forth. He will surely say something about good will toward men as he gazes at the tree. He could take his text from Mrs. Myers, Bill Ruback and his men, the crew from Davey's and that tiny corner of York that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Mrs. Myers' Blue Spruce | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...first-rate art museum and 25 major corporate headquarters, a number surpassed among cities only by Chicago and New York. Most Clevelanders thought they had escaped becoming a national joke last year when they voted out Mayor Ralph Perk. He once set his hair ablaze with a welding torch while showing his affinity for the workingman during a campaign appearance at a local steel mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cleveland: Facing Collapse? | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...severely beaten and nearly blinded by goons, he documented the tragedy in his book Minamata, published in 1975. An intense, uncompromising craftsman, Smith strove to make timeless, pointed statements about the human condition. "Photography is not just a job to me," he once explained. "I'm carrying a torch with a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1978 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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