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...Haig advise Nixon to lie? According to a transcript of a White House tape recording, Nixon told Haig, "We do know we have one problem: it's that damn conversation of March 21." That was when Presidential Counsel John Dean warned Nixon about "a cancer growing around the presidency." Nixon suggested that Dean's account of the conversation could be refuted by Haldeman: "Bob can handle it ... Bob will say, 'I was there; the President said ...' " Haig agreed: "That's exactly right." And, suggested Haig, "You just can't recall." But if Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Watergate Role | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...Flying tape measures - and tempers - at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now, a First Decorator | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...startling hint for Jimmy and Rosalynn to consider clearing out well before Jan. 20. As it was, the new Administration seemed to be as intent on redecorating as on Cabinetmaking. Reagan aides traipsed in and out of the White House's working areas to size up office space. Tape measure in hand, Graber personally spent two days poring over the living quarters, including the Carters' bedroom. Carter people, who have been rather stung by all the press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now, a First Decorator | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...Serge Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7. Béla Bartók: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. I and 2. Arnold Schönberg: 17 short piano pieces. Anton Webern: Variations for Piano. Pierre Boulez: Second Sonata for Piano. Luigi Nono: Music for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra and Magnetic Tape (Slavka Taskova, soprano, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon, five LPs). Pollini's herculean fingering stands out even in that select circle of great young pianists to which he belongs. His Chopin Etudes may set a new standard for his generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds for the Solstice | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...here's the video tape again with still another angle on lago as he evilly fingers Desdemona's hanky. And look! lago is curling the old lip just a trifle. Nice curl too, eh, Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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