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Shepard's earlier works are weakened by attempts to universalize uninteresting and generally ludicrous particulars. The characters are two-dimensional, artificial constructions; their conversations are heavy-handed and foolish. Shepard's early tendency toward bald, over stated symbolism has mellowed to produce the subtle, relevant statements of his most recent works, Buried Child and True West...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: True Shepard | 4/21/1982 | See Source »

...plans to run again Monday. It will be his 51st Boston Marathon, though he is half inclined not to count the three he didn't finish (1928, 1932 and 1956). "I meet people every day now," Keliey says, "with gray heads, bald heads, who tell me how their fathers always took them to Fenway on Patriots Day morning to see the Red Sox and then on to the race to cheer us in. Boston is Boston. It's tradition. But I'm as confused as all get out now. Jeepers, it's a whole new ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure Joy Is Running Out | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...many broken people have you seen around the House lately? No, not mentally broken people, not people who adopt English accents but recalls broken ones. The poor bastards hobbling on crutches and bald armpits because they twisted their ankle or broke their knee or something like that...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Straus Cup Casualities | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...blood cells by the use of small electrical charges. The technique, called electrophoresis, could be extremely useful in creating vaccines and other biological substances of exceptional purity, and should work far better in zero-g than on earth. As Lousma hovered over the glass columns, Fullerton's bald head suddenly appeared upside down in a corner of the screen. "That must be the vampire coming after the red blood cells," said Mission Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Bugs, Bees and Balky Radios | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Sophomore forward CHRIS MITCHELL--also known as "Psycho"--has been going bald lately. Although his teammates love to rib him about it, he maintains that it's his high forehead that makes everyone talk about his receding hairline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holiday Wishes of Harvard Jocks | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

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