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Still, abolitionists like Kendall argue that because of the care and caution required by the Supreme Court, the death penalty is likely to be applied very rarely and thus will always appear arbitrary and freakish. "After a long and complex legal process," says Columbia's Edgar, the handful of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A More Palatable Way of Killing | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

If it hurries, the Cambridge City Council can still make a nice Christmas gift to some deserving parish so that celebrants can enjoy the little wooden Nativity scene in the setting in which it belongs on private property.

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Church and State | 12/15/1982 | See Source »

When Ernest Hemingway awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, he informed the committee that there was another author more deserving: "That beautiful writer Isak Dinesen." It was not one of Papa's displays of calculated modesty. The Danish baroness Karen Blixen, who hid under a series of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anecdotes from Scheherazade | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Alton's Peron is a Machiavellian, if occasionally befuddled, politician. And R. Michael Baker's Che stands as a deserving counter-Force to Alstay's Evita. He's on stage almost throughout the show, jumping, running, kneeling--seldom content to stand silently as Evita becomes increasingly popular and disingenuous.

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Glamor Girl | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

The Jellicles are assembled for a clan ritual. Annually, the revered elder, Old Deuteronomy, played like a benign biblical patriarch by Ken Page, chooses a deserving Jellicle to ascend "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside Layer," and be born again. While this serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: O That Anthropomorphical Rag | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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