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...dare and satisfaction of "living naked," as Horovitz calls it, seems to be something stretching beyond his plays. He speaks of whatever he has done with great passion and amusement. "I was really a very flexible young man. I go back to me sitting in my bedroom, mixing beer, coffee, hot chocolate, and scotch, drinking it down, and throwing up all over the bedroom floor, thinking I'd really found something. And hearing about peyote-almost poisoning myself by chewing on something like the root of a tiger lily, running around pulling up weeds, and almost poisoning myself...
Want to win a sure bet? Dare someone not to half-die laughing at Lou Jacobi in a slight but briskly burnished comic nugget of a play called Norman, Is That...
...opponent, the man who appears fated to lead the revolution when it comes, the government dare not jail. He is young King Moshoeshoe II, a sophisticated Oxford man who is probably the most qualified politician-academically, anyway-in the country...
...event, for Lesotho is too poor to afford an army. The king, on the other hand, has a private cavalry-a formidable gang of red-blanketed horsemen-and many Basutos possess hunting rifles. Nor could the South African Government be prevailed upon to intervene for the Prime Minister. It dare not if it wanted to, for such interference in another country's affairs could set a dangerous precedent for South Africa herself...
Until his student days at the University of Toronto, Sutherland had never been inside a theater. Then he took a dare and was cast in a local production of The Male Animal. After graduating, he headed straight for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. The result was a competent but totally obscure repertory actor who lived a stereotyped hand-to-mouth existence, once in a basement for $2 a week. "It was an excellent deal," Sutherland told TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen. "I lived right next to the hot-water heater and was warmer than anyone else...