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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play opens with the timely revival of the protagonist, Lantry, played with admirable perseverence by Adam Fratto. Apparently the citizens of future Earth have decided that human bodies are a form of toxic waste, and so have exhumed and burned every last corpse--with the exception of Lantry, who springs to life and escapes...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Schizophrenic Futurism | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...Taste for Death marks the long awaited return of Commander Adam Dagliesh, a sensitive yet super-sly inspector, who hasn't graced James' novels in the last nine years. Now back in action, Dagliesh's current task is to investigate what appears to be the double suicide of politically prominent Sir Paul Berowne and town tramp Harry Mack, found together in a church vestry with their throats...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: A Taste for Mystery | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...such proposal. If the Israelis disapprove, they should present their own ideas. Without someone to negotiate with, the moderates in the Palestinian community will eventually be displaced. Articles such as Mr. Lichtman's which promotes only bigotry and violence, are no help to those interested in real peace. Adam Abdelhamid Sabra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middle East | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...Where you been?" his father wanted to know. Bruce told him, and his father said, "What happened?" "They didn't take me." And his father heard that and said simply, "That's good." A story like that shows where seminal Springsteen songs like Adam Raised a Cain -- heard here in a rubbed-raw 1978 performance -- may have come from. On this record, it is also a psychic peacemaking. By the time the whole set ends with Tom Waits' Jersey Girl, a song to which Springsteen has added his own long last verse, there is a sense that accounts have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There's Magic in the Night | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...shifts of the electorate. Since I think that a man like Clark Abt is a valuable person in politics, I shall vote for him. I should also say that for the past 15 years, I have been a director of Abt Associates (as have been Evelyn Murphy, Kenneth Arros, Adam Yarmolinsky and other Democrats). This is not an instance, however, of interest affinity, but a knowledge that permits me easily to endorse his qualifications. Daniel Bell Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abt | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

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