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...anything. The aristocratic husband, bearing the cross of cuckoldry on his corpulent frame, shoots him squarely through the head but no one ever dies. When the crusty, provincial detective scrapes dried blood from the bannister, he really isn't looking for a murder victim. With the mystery at the brink of solution--and this is the biggest bluff of all--it appears there was no crime. This path of deception and confusion makes an evening of humorous mystery, and any selfmade detective has a good chance to discover the truth three or four times before the script oveals...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...Year without a doubt was Senator George McGovern who lost the election but prodded Richard Nixon to the brink of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1972 | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...Kremlin has seemed increasingly anxious to prevent détente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Crackdown on Dissent | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

BRATTLE THEATER. Brink of Life, 6:15, 9:30, wknd mat 3, Dreams, wknd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

What snatches Mother back from the brink of tedium is the talent and unpolluted enthusiasm-of its young ten-member cast. Kelly Garrett, all bangs and boots and big, big eyes, sings from somewhere deeper than the thorax. Each time her small frame produces that large voice it is a surprise, and after a while the listener understands that there is more than physical equipment and technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Life-Giving Illusion | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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