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The book also presents a collage of classic one-liners for use in very special circumstances. Perhaps only once a millennium will a nobleman state that an actor-playwright will die either from venereal disease or hanging. Samuel Foote's riposte: "My Lord, that will depend upon one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tattle Tales | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Edna St. Vincent Millay aroused both Wilson's intellectual and physical passion to "a blaze of ecstasy." But Millay, who had the same effect on dozens of men, was soon off for Europe. Wilson had to share his farewell embrace on a day bed with another admirer, John Peale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salad Days | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Timid Soul. Her one imperious achievement of the evening is to act as if she were the only person onstage. Since she delivers her part of the dialogue like nightclub one-liners, she might as well be alone. As Hedda's sinister admirer Judge Brack, Timothy West is as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Turkey Gabler | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

As the man who triggers the mechanics of the play by making a secret loan to Nora and then writing her husband a letter about it, Krogstadt should be ominous. Yet Heyman merely huffs and puffs like a March wind. Dr. Rank, Nora's platonic admirer, is dying of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Doll's Hearse | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

In the best tradition of the spy masters, James Jesus Angleton, 57, always worked in the shadows, his identity as the Central Intelligence Agency's chief of counterintelligence known to few besides other key spooks, his family and a handful of close friends. Now, the controversy over the CIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: The Making of a Master Spy | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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