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...play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind of exit line is equal to the worst of Hammett's life-and the best of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...week ago last Sunday, the couple left a restaurant in the Bucks County resort town of New Hope, Pa. It was 7:15 p.m., and they had not been drinking. Moments later, in a heavy downpour, Fischbein apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel, and Savitch, along with her pet Siberian husky, lay in the back seat, drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Thanks to some shoddy play from the Crimson, in particular Clifton, the Rams quickly took it to the young Harvard squad, tallying their only goal of the day at the 18:44 mark on the first. Exit Clifton...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Shivering Stickwomen slip by URI | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

Land Leasing. The leasing of coal lands during a market glut (at a loss of $100 million, according to the General Accounting Office) prompted the creation of a coal-leasing review panel, and Watt's insensitive description of the panel's "balance" precipitated his exit. Overall, the federal land leased to coal-mining companies more than quintupled under Watt. Conservationists fear that many leases were granted hastily, without proper environmental impact studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of James Watt | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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