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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indication of the substantial respect accorded the R.S.C. that this Richard III received accommodating reviews, while a similarly hyped-up production of Macbeth, starring Peter O'Toole as an unusually incarnadine Thane, at the reconstituted Old Vic, has created a scandal and received an unmerciful critical drubbing. The excesses of the R.S.C. Richard III are no less egregious, but it was the threadbare O'Toole-Bryan Forbes production that quickly exhausted the limited patience and generosity of the London reviewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Raising the Dickens in London | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Aside from Army, no team has been able to pierce the Crimson's maniacal suicide return defense. Joe Margolis, Vic Kazanjian and Louis Varsames stand out on kick returns...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Special Specialty Squad | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

...nation's second longest winning streak came to an end when Tufts--that's right, Tufts--succumbed to Trinity College of Connecticut, 16-14, on a 34-yd. field goal with 12 seconds left. Jumbo coach Vic Gatto--a Crimson hero of the famous 1969 29-29 Harvard-Yale tie--was frustrated in his bid to establish a school record of 13 straight wins...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth Romp in Openers; Cornell Trudges Past Princeton, 17-7 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

Much of the show in Chicago consists of memorabilia and trinkets from the colonial years of the 19th century. Though they are of historical interest, few of them have any aesthetic dimension at all, and the effect tends to fluctuate between Trader Vic's and Portobello Road: old photos, crude portraits, a throne run up by a lo cal German carpenter in 1847 for King Kamehameha III. More recent currents in Hawaiian culture are sketchily represented by the attempts of living artists to make art based on aboriginal myth. These efforts at nostalgic revivalism look like airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chieftains, Flacks and Feathers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...subject. But most observers think Borg has mastered topspin as has no player since French noblemen developed the game in the Middle Ages.* As a result, he plays more of that crucial space above the net than anyone in the history of the game. Says Tennis Coach Vic Braden: "Bjorn can make the ball drop so fast it will untie your shoelaces. If you want to get back far enough to take it on the bounce, you've gotta call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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