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Sherman Holcombe, once-suspended Shop Steward of the Radcliffe Dining Halls, comes out of self-imposed retirement to release his autobiography, entitled Pimento. It is co-authored by Lillian Hellman, who claims that "like me, Sherman was the victim of a witch-hunt." Holcombe shakes up the press conference by telling Hellman to "speak for yourself...
...graph paper and includes such monsters as Balrogs, Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable to decide such things as whether a witch capturing a player will turn him into a swine or keep him enchanted as a lover." One game in Cambridge, Mass., played every Saturday by members of M.I.T.'s Strategic Games Society, has gone on since spring and search teams have explored only three levels of the labyrinth cooked...
...editor of The New Yorker. In Now Look What You've Done (Pantheon; unpaged; $7.95), Lorenz employs little of Saxon's architectural draftsmanship or Price's mirth-shaking slapstick. But in the right mood, he can quote anything out of context for hilarious effect. Outside the witch's gingerbread house a sign reads: THIS STRUCTURE WILL BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS! and LET'S GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N. "That...
...Indian Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons his mad hat and plays a witch doctor...
Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...