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Warner said he check the Lyric Stage, on the corner of Charles and Beacon Streets in Boston, for "its central location in a beautiful area of town, and for its workable space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Playwright | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

...venerable men's club, the sole setting of The Middle Ages. In a time of ethnicity, the club remains a haven for an embattled Wasp old guard. For the younger generation that departs on a picaresque journey through the chaotic world outside, the club is a beacon, a symbol of the formative power of tradition even on those who would escape its sway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Elegy for the Declining Wasp | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...self-respect returns, Clarisse's need to hide herself vanishes, and in a striking scene Julien sees her true beauty; "Just then the beacon from the lighthouse crossed her face and Julien was left petrified. Her make-up had given way under the tears and Kleenex and like the ramparts of a city it had crumbled and seeped away...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Bon Voyage | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...mythical Brooklyn with the magic snow of a Statue of Liberty souvenir. And when Cecelia finally encounters the first real American soldiers, she cannot speak with them, so they make her balloons out of their supply of condoms to carry back to the group as a beacon of hope...

Author: By Jeen-christophe Castelli, | Title: Italian Fireworks | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...presents too broad a "cross section" for Soviet radar. Critics doubt that the B-1B design will fool Soviet radar either. Worse, they charge, the B-1B's own terrain-following radar, which it uses to navigate to the target, will send out what amounts to a beacon that enemy fighters and missiles can home in on. The doubters concede the B-1B's advanced avionics gear will do a better job of jamming Soviet radar, but add that the same avionics could be put aboard B-52s at a small cost. In sum, whatever edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold-Plated Weapons | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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