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...catastrophe seemed a nightmare from which the descending curtain would deliver the audience. Now Harrison, a strangely serene fatalist of a patriarch, has come to Broadway in Anthony Page's more earthbound revival. These are not Olympians playing at mortal games but overage children playing blindman's buff as the apocalypse closes in on them. Still, they are Shaw's creatures, and in this splendid, savory play they can still beguile. As the daughters, Harris (who takes Rigg's role here) has a madcap-heiress presence, charming herself no less than the others, and Dana Ivey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Distant Thunder | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...drove away. This was five or six minutes before the time that Tippit was murdered. So, according to proponents of this theory, Tippit was assigned to kill Oswald after Oswald had incriminated himself, but that Oswald had learned of it and had killed Tippit. Jack Ruby was a police buff who was forever hanging around police headquarters, partly because of a very long rap sheet and a desire to cultivate as many law enforcement friends as possible. Nothing concrete ties Ruby and Tippit together, nor does anything substantially link Oswald to either...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...Diehl, 25, a New York City actress whose previous appearances include an off-off-Broadway production of Henry IV, work as an extra in Francis Coppola's upcoming Cotton Club and TV plugs for Paterson Silks and Pergament paint. How does she feel about peddling panties in the buff? "It's not exactly Shakespeare," says Diehl, "but it beats selling paint." Even if it is a shade off-color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 21, 1983 | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

Members of the audience who answered a New York City Opera questionnaire were overwhelmingly in favor of the subtitles. A sampling of operagoers interviewed by TIME during the first two weeks of Cendrillon performances had scarcely any complaints. Opera Buff Milicent Auerbach conceded that continually looking up at the titles and down at the stage could give someone seated in the orchestra a pain in the neck. "The words being sung and the subtitles didn't always coincide," noted Brooklyn College Professor Carolyn Richmond. "But the captions were very helpful. Even though I understand French, I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cendrillon Becomes Cinderella | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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