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When her father dies, Isabel must invent an existence for herself and fill expanses of time never before regarded. "I would wake in the morning frightened, wondering how I would fill the hours until it was time to sleep again." We are left to watch a 30 year-old woman...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Saints and Sinners | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

Terrorism lives or dies on whether it achieves success. -Israeli Scholar Benzion Netanyahu

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijacking: A Victory for Terrorism | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

THE ROLLER COASTER of a movie barrels toward hell: the lead singer dies, and Tony deserts his kid ("Little Pete") on a NYC street. Bakshi decides to bring the story up to the present while linking it with the past, so Pete struts the street to Pat Benatar's recent...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: American Popaganda | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

In a flutter of duets and trios and sprightly choral spectacles, the rejected Nemorino turns for help to the traveling doctor Dulcamara. This quintessential quack provides him with the magical "elixir of love" (A bottle of Bordeaux) which will transfix Adina's attentions. Adina and Belcore prepare for a gala...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Under the Chandeliers | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

Faces in My Time can be read as one humiliation after another, swallowed with barely a twitch. When his fifth novel, What's Become of Waring, sells exactly 999 copies, Powell records the figure in the tone of a conscientious bookkeeper. When World War II comes and his colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Muted Memoir FACES IN MY TIME by Anthony Powell | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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