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...historical inaccuracy that counts (he was probably felled by a Canadian R.A.F. pilot) but the fact that his death touches no nerve. That is not John Vickery's fault, for he and the rest of the cast perform feats of acting valor with a script that goes AWOL from the curtain's rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Slain Dragon | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...teen-age schoolgirls violate the sanctity of the room and go AWOL from their parents' code by valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...Cambridge city council last night became the first local government in the nation to refuse to comply with a federal request to publicly display a list of draft registrants, according to members of the Anti-war Organizing League (AWOL), who lobbied for the denial...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Council Backs Anti-Draft Resolution | 2/23/1982 | See Source »

...suspect, an 18-year-old Arlington man, has since (or so it is rumored) been whisked back to the Navy, from which he was AWOL, the debris atop the granite stadium has been cleared, and a brand new press box--one that will never burn down--is nearly ready to start off the 1981 season...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: A Phoenix of a Pressbox | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

WHEN THE FILM refrains from digging up dead dirt on a dead woman and concentrates on creating the live persona of Rose, things improve. The entire sequence with Frederic Forrest as an AWOL Army sergeant is enchanting; Midler's gifts as both a comic and serious actress shine as she creates an original character rather than rehashing old rumors about Joplin...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Janis-Faced Rose | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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