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> Anastasia is an admirably ambitious but ultimately unconvincing full-length ballet about Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter Lynn Seymour who, by some accounts, escaped execution at the hands of the Bolsheviks and as Anna Anderson spent years unsuccessfully trying to prove that she was indeed the Grand Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Royal Eggs | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

Eventually, though, a balance of power must be struck between the government, including the think tanks, and the government. If we want general participation in policy analysis and execution, effective means of participation must be supplied. Although steps have been taken in this direction by particular think tanks, the government...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: Think Tanks: Public Power in Private Hands | 5/17/1972 | See Source »

Died. Peter Morland Churchill, 63, top British agent with the French Resistance during World War II; of spinal cancer; in Cannes, France. Churchill made four clandestine trips (two by submarine, two by parachute) into German-occupied France. On his fourth mission, he and his aide, Odette Sansom, were captured by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1972 | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

A chorus-jury files in, and the four figures turn into leaders explaining their reasons for the execution of a certain "Young Comrade." A series of scenes portrays Young Comrade's repeated betrayals of the group. Brecht never takes long to come to the point, and soon the moral is...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Of Necessary Distance | 5/9/1972 | See Source »

High Gloss. As a choreographer, Champion is admirably disciplined. The execution is flawless, but Champion's dance imagination is rigid. He favors locomotive choreography in which the chorus chug-chug-chugs around and occasionally wigwags its outstretched arms semaphore-fashion. This is fine for motion, but scanty of meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: The Girls in the Band | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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