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...kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many years of Humblepause. But he is worth hearing for his mirth, and for his message...
...Artistic Director, Professor of English at Harvard, and theatre critic for The New Republic--has performed major surgery on Thomas Middleton's seventeenth century tragedy to resurrect it for the Loeb stage. Brustein's version of the neglected Jacobean play is a kind of amalgam with the elegance of neo-classical tragedy, the gritty flow of nineteenth century Naturalism and the thematic revelance of Modernism, yet it still manages to cohere...
...formation in 1964, the P.L.O. has been an umbrella organization for a bewildering variety of groups (Arafat's Fatah is by far the largest) that have little in common but the dream of a Palestinian state. Divided by strategy (whether to rely on diplomacy, guerrilla war or some uneasy amalgam of both) and the rivalries of their leaders, the groups have split and recombined endlessly. In 1974 Arab states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." That designation, reaffirmed in 1982, is the foundation of the P.L.O's power in international affairs. But formal recognition...
...Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough to marry a bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls...
...caps, and can usually be performed without pain or the need to file down teeth. While bonding now lasts only five to seven years before it needs to be redone, the resins are continually being improved. Some are already so durable that dentists use them instead of silver amalgam for fillings in the front teeth...