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The momentum was building even before Reagan and his NSC gave their collective go-ahead for the five-year plan, which must still be formally proposed to Congress. Early last month the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested that the year-old Air Force Space Command be subsumed under a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Step Closer to Star Wars | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Those homely virtues-longevity, consistency-are the ones emphasized by Saint Laurent's rivals, such as Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld, in commenting on the Met's selection, and this is not faint praise. Members of the high-fashion elite are rich and coddled celebrities who seldom breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Toasting Saint Laurent | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

The Smithsonian Institution is the repository of national memory. In the celebrated Air and Space Museum, the frail craft that the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., hovers near the command module of Apollo 11, which first put man on the moon. In the Museum of American History are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Season's Readings | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Always, in his paintings, one feels that things are happening on the other side of the frame, which is a virtual proscenium. It is exactly this removal that equipped him so well, at the outset, as a stage designer. As Friedman argues at some length in his text (and as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: All the Colors of the Stage | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

This bare plot is filled our with the genie's intermittent appearance and interesting reflections on love and the art of narrative. The mixture of ancient and modern traditions in the script, and the exotic scenery and costumes are the strongest aspects of this production. The Persuasive acting and fluid...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Missing the Punch Line | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

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