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The same parallel can be seen in the drug crisis. Alfred McCoy wrote in the The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia in the early 1970s that the U.S. Government was not actively stemming the import of illegal stimulants from Southeast Asia into the U.S. because it wished to cultivate...
Unlike the Lunts -- Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne -- with whom they are often compared, the Cronyns do not insist on working together. Their most visible recent roles, in fact, have been done separately. For playing the lovably irascible lead in Driving Miss Daisy, Tandy was nominated for an Academy Award...
Earlier this year, Tandy, who is 80 and suffers from angina, took sick during their annual vacation in the Bahamas and was briefly hospitalized. "I was terribly worried about her," says Cronyn. "We don't have a telephone in the house. Until this year I thought it was a blessing...
"The Loeb just has so much space--that's whatthe difficulty is," said Lowell Professor of theHumanities William Alfred, who chairs thecommittee. "The difficulty is we don't want to doundergraduates out of their time. If theUniversity paid for a portion of space time, thenCitystep could be put in without...
It is easy, far too easy, to poke fun at these idiosyncrasies. What Murdoch can do surpassingly well is move a narrative. Once caught in her grip, the reader flies through myriad complications, signal switches and genuine surprises. The Message to the Planet is not her strongest book. It chronicles...