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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they would turn over to the West German press photos of him wearing only his socks. West German counterintelligence foiled the plot by extracting a promise from the newspapers not to publish the photos. The KGB tried to snare U.S. Assistant Military Attaché James Holbrook in a similar "honey trap" of seductive female agents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Rovno in 1981. He reported the misadventure to U.S. officials and was sent home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Music about basic experiences runs the risk of over-simplification and leans towards judgment, a trap which the weakest song on the album, "sleepyhead," falls into. An annoying guitar whines while a syncopated rhythm pounds out what might have been an interesting musical question what will happen to Russia tomorrow, according to the Bible' The song mostly fails to lift the Intener above an unengaging level of absurdity, typified by the litany "Follow the money, follow the crowd, follow the fashion, follow the leader, follow that car' follow the yellow brick road...

Author: By Suesn A. Gould, | Title: Sly Jabs at Absurdity | 2/10/1983 | See Source »

...discovered. His illegal tap had been recorded on a log maintained by the computer and printed out daily. A supervisor scanned the list and discovered that the Fed worker whose number Langevin had lifted was on vacation. As soon as that worker was cleared, the Fed set a trap. It created fictitious money-supply data and then rigged the computer telephone line with a tracing device. When Langevin made his next call, he was caught. Says a Fed official: "He walked into the henhouse to steal some chickens, and the gate closed behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Filching Figures | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...away from controversy. He will not, as many musicians gleefully do, talk about his colleagues' performances. He refuses to be pinned down about his favorite pieces of music. Says Levine: "There is a general tendency in the world to be preoccupied with evaluating things, and this is a trap. If you agree that Verdi's masterpieces are Otello and Falstaff, then what about Ernani and Macbeth? In finding a level on a kind of musical Richter scale, it implies that you should not be altogether involved with works that get only a 3 or a 5." Yet, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of the Met: James Levine is the most powerful opera conductor in America | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Mastrosimone fudges on the answers to some of the questions he raises. If you trap a rapist who planned to violate and kill you, is eye-for-an-eye justice immutable or does the common bond of humanity invoke mercy? First to last, Extremities holds the playgoer transfixed. Robert Allan Ackerman directs all the scenes like hand grenades with the pins pulled, and James Russo and Susan Sarandon, in particular, lob them with precision. -By T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hand Grenade | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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