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REQUIEM, K. 626 (Telefunken). Mozart's liturgical music is tricky to interpret. But Karl Richter, an organist and harpsichordist as well as conductor, creates a performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

THE APPARENT unprincipled ease with which Richard Nixon danced from position to position during last fall's campaign must have horrified most of his liberal opponents. But now that Tricky Dick is President, that same shiftiness has become liberal America's main hope. Perhaps the campaign bombast about law-in...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Jamie, Strom, and Dick | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

TRICKY TOM IS AT IT AGAIN read one of the placards waved by 40 or so pickets in front of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum last week. They were protesting Director Thomas P. F. Hoving's choice of material for "Harlem On My Mind," an exhibition devoted to "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Harlem Experiment | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Calling about half of the plays at the line of scrimmage, he read Baltimore's tricky, shifting defense like an open book. In the second quarter, Namath put together a smooth and varied 80-yd. scoring drive sparked by Fullback Snell. Hammering again and again at the spongy right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Impossible Reality | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

But after the exciting pot-lighting, things get boring. Boring and cold. From 2 a.m. until 5 the smudgers have no specific duties except to make sure that overheated pots don't explode. Taking a fatalistic approach to this job ("if a pot's gonna explode, it's gonna explode...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light the Pots | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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