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He combines Gallic charm with acerbic wit. As a working musician, he practices remarkable exactness and discipline. As a bachelor of 46, he is free to rise at 5 each morning to compose, and he often holds work meetings in his apartment at 8, thereafter running through as many as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who Wants Parsifal in the Morning? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

I hope all of this isn't mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Politics and Films for Beginners | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

Despite its faults, Owen Wingrave is a stimulating example of how technology, tape and the small screen may someday acquire a highly useful role in opera. A switch to slow motion, with an accompanying abrupt shift from color to monochrome, helps evoke real horror as the legend is retold of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Mundi | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Soon after he returned to Harvard, he began a practice which was to recur at other times in his academic career: playing both sides of the White House political fence. Ostensibly a Rockefeller man. Kissinger readily agreed to compose position papers for a Democratic Presidential candidate: Senator John F. Kennedy...

Author: By "the MEANING Of history", | Title: The Salad Days of Henry Kissinger | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

Forty-five minutes later, the show breaks. While the frozen fanatics in line look on in disbelief, only about 20 customers emerge, dry-eyed. What the hell, was the theater empty? Can the film be a bomb after the New York Times called it "perfection"? More waiting, tempers rising. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ali MacGraw: A Return to Basics | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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