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...South Africa, insists, "Urgency is the basis of all great art. This urgency is no longer apparent in European or U.S. art." That judgment may be too sweeping. Yet there is no question that African Christian art, serene and savage, florid and austere, stands virtually alone in the vigor and authenticity with which its practitioners seek to express the inexpressible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Africa's Artistic Resurrection | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Tudor's Romeo and Juliet; six years later, he devised his own Romeo and Juliet ballet, The Guests; in 1957 he reworked the theme for West Side Story and, the next year he adapted that show's street rhythms in his ballet N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. His creativity and vigor seemed inexhaustible: 20 musicals and 19 ballets in 20 years. Even Robbins is impressed. "When I started doing this show," he says, "I looked at what I did then. Frankly, I was amazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerome Robbins: Peter Pan Flies Again | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...denounce homophobia in any of its expressions and the assault of my friends on the member of my house. My friends were wrong, even if they were provoked. I also denounce with equal vigor sexual harassment, in all of its expressions, and the harassment of the said individual on my friend...

Author: By Brian J. Buckley, | Title: Sexual Harassment | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

...omnipotence, deciding against Nevada-Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian in his twelve-year fight for due process as opposed to arbitrary suspensions. It may be an accident of timing, but almost from the moment of the decision, the NCAA has seemed to flex its muscles with increased vigor -- and the college-sports lockup has swelled. Brooklyn College, Illinois, Marist College, Minnesota, Texas A & M, Arizona State, Cleveland State, Cincinnati, Houston, West Texas State, Kansas and Oklahoma represent the year's catch in the NCAA's crusade, according to its charter, to "retain a clear line of demarcation between college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: You Do It Until You Get Caught | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

BEETHOVEN: EARLY YEARS THROUGH THE EROICA (Smithsonian Collection of Recordings). Just what the world needs: more Beethoven. But wait. This collection is played with vim and vigor on original instruments: Beethoven like he oughtta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 28, 1988 | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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