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She is also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jagged Flashes of Inspiration | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Last spring in London, John Dexter directed Rex Harrison and, as the sisters, Diana Rigg and Rosemary Harris in a production so dazzlingly elegant that the final, abrupt catastrophe seemed a nightmare from which the descending curtain would deliver the audience. Now Harrison, a strangely serene fatalist of a patriarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Distant Thunder | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Four teams stage a daffy scramble in the National League East

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Can Anyone Win This Thing? | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

The other big difference between the two men is that Murphy shot into prominence within the dangerous discipline of television sketch comedy. From TV's long and distinguished list of skitcom graduates, the few who made a successful transition to movie stardom were usually those who had created and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Good Little Bad Little Boy | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

The Harvard Foundation can better utilize their mission to tackle racism by inviting real Black role models, such as Barbara Jordan, Maya Angelou, or Steive Wonder (if they were determined to have a musical figure), to visit Harvard. However, if the Harvard Foundation wishes to continue in their ineffectual pattern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Diana | 5/11/1983 | See Source »

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