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...cess to the lawn. He also instituted a policy allowing any College affiliate to sign up to use the land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Corner of the Fly Club | 11/17/1983 | See Source »

...superstitious peasant scenes, as well as in the passages where the swells up at the main castle fall to intriguing, one feels he is witnessing a compilation of best-loved scenes from the history of the sword-and-sorcery genre, though Chloe Salaman is a lovely and spirited prin cess of this mythical realm. It must be said that the uninspired stretches throw the film's magical moments into high relief. The final confrontation between Richardson and the rude beast, a confrontation in which Galen finally rises from apprentice to journeyman in the dragon-slaying game, is grippingly orchestrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sorcerer and Apprentice | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Langston reacts to those situations the way you would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...more important question of Madame Blavatsky's occult powers, Biographer Meade takes a view that will seem evenhanded to most readers who are not Theosophists (the society persists throughout the world, including New York City, where it was founded, Lon don, where Blavatsky had her wildest suc cess, and Adyar, a suburb of Madras, where she set up her headquarters). The Victorian age had a great hankering for table rapping, poltergeists, spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Spirit | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Mugabe, who was playing host last week to visiting Mozambican President Samora Machel. Described by aides as "embarrassed and enraged" at the alleged conduct of a longtime friend and comrade, Mugabe promptly sent word to Parliament that full justice would be done. Whatever the outcome of the judicial pro cess, the case would be sure to confront Mugabe's own leadership with a series of crucial tests and uncertainties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: The First Test | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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