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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vanessa Redgrave charges blacklisting by the B.S.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Art Silenced or Preserved? | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...music who has scant interest in more mundane subjects like politics. He reads newspapers "as little as possible," he says, and "I don't pay much attention to television." So no one was more surprised than Morris at the furor that ensued in March 1982 after British Actress Vanessa Redgrave was hired to narrate the B.S.O.'s planned production of the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. Redgrave, as anyone who does read the newspapers should know, is a Trotskyite and ardent supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and her selection immediately inspired an outcry. Faced with protests from musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Art Silenced or Preserved? | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

After all the furor over Vanessa Williams and the image she tarnished for young Americans, how do you dare print the photo of the men Olympic swimmers without their trunks [PEOPLE, Oct. 1]? It is typical of the double standard in our society. Boys will be boys, but girls had better be ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1984 | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...terms like that to describe The Bostonians, for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it. There is a certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage the nicely chosen antiques the curator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Adaptation as Antique Show | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...round, blue eyes and feathery blond hair. She is interested in parapsychology and gymnastics. She beat 27 other women in a modeling and talent contest to become the Penthouse Pet of the of the Year and be featured nude this month--just before the second installment of the controversial Vanessa Williams pictures. Starion also won $1 million worth of sable furs, jewelry, cars, stereo equipment and other prizes...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Penthouse Pet Visits Harvard Square | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

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