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With her cast of eight, Tadjedin has built an effective rearrangement. The Cocktail Party is three acts of point-blank life, improbable yet familiar. It is straight drama, structured around the marital problems of one London couple, paced according to the speech of its eight-person cast and having in its three acts only two settings--a London drawing room and a psychiatrist's consulting room. Rising from this conventionally-British yet potentially-portentous setting, Eliot's language manages a tone of religious pronouncement and philosophical anguish that still sounds natural coming from the play's routine, middle-aged characters...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T.S. Eliot Mixes an Angst-Ridden `Cocktail' | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...made almost any activity that most Americans today take for granted--voting, speaking one's mind, even walking after dark--a lethal embarkment. Fights and battles occur not too far from Lidie and her circle of friends, but tragedy never hits close to home--until Thomas is shot point-blank by two Missourians...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wild, Wild West: Smiley Kicks It Covered-Wagon Style | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Harvard got outstanding performances from senior middie Jared Chupaila, freshman face-off middie Adam McGowan and sophomore goalie Keith Cynar whose stopped a point blank shot with 1:56 left...

Author: By Owen Breck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Belivacqua's Heroics Spur Crimson Upset | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...leaves you laughing all the way to the bank, you might want to save time and buy one while you're there. The "Buddha Money Mystery" makes coins appear, vanish and change, the "Chinese Wallet" will change your cash into a fortune, and the "Money Maker" cranks in blank paper and spits out dollars. Jack's can teach you how to put a cigarette through a quarter or how to place a half dollar through the neck of a bottle and out again. Budding magicians who want to learn the tricks of the trade can choose from Jack...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: jack attack | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

What are the eyes of a child soldier supposed to look like? Felfiel Manhica's are downcast and blank in a face that rarely smiles. He is 22 now, still undersize and boyish, but he was just 13 when rebel Renamo soldiers crept into the hamlet of Taninga before dawn in 1988 to steal food and took him too. They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Rising | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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