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The age of mass entertainment is but a blip on the screen of evolution; yet the process of changing Homo erectus into Homo sedentarius is well under way. We sit; we watch; we listen. We sit, talk and read about what we have seen and heard. As a drama critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost and Found in the Stars | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

There are signs that a small group of unknown investors, which rumormongers in the futures market variously identify as shady Middle Easterners, tricky Europeans and even sinister folk from Staten Island, are plotting an unscrupulous investment maneuver known as a squeeze play. If they are, the price of silver could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold and Silver Go Bonkers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

In the roughest match of the afternoon, Harvard's Howard Verlin held on to down Lowell's Jim Gore. Taller and broader than most 118-pounders, Gore gave away two penalty points and a bloody mouth to scrappy Veroin. A tricky Peterson side roll and two reversals paved the way...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Crimson Matmen Pulverize Opposition | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

A: One is being a waiter in (Verdi's) La Boheme. The singers go to a cafe and walk off without paying the bill, so the waiters look outraged, another tricky emotion. Verdi's Tosca is a great opera for extras. In the Met production, the extras get to be...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

But go ahead, give this album to your mother. She won't hear what those tricky engineers did to the majority of the cuts. Played at its normal speed, A Holiday Toast is heartwarming, charming, endearing....Put it on while you hang up the mistletoe. It will make you want...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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