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...maybe the cause was the packs of Hatfields who crossed the Tug Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison Hatfield, and Ellison's riposte was intemperate and unprintable. Seventeen knife thrusts and one revolver shot later, Ellison lay mortally wounded. The eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye retaliation began: three McCoys were captured by Hatfields under the command of Ellison's brother Devil Anse, tied...
...shies away from filling its ranks with undergraduates; what they gain in vocal talent, they more than lose in raw, youthful enthusiasm and appeal. In this production, at least, the players would have done well to turn their recruiting energies to the orchestra, which sounds regrettably soggy under Todd Ellison's direction, and the lighting, which, in Gil Ohana's design, seems to follow the rock-concert theory of brightening or dimming as the music gets louder or softer...
...signs, since opening the main gate which would permit a fast, free flow of traffic is undoubtedly too drastic an action for the Harvard authorities who demand that it be kept locked. This is a relatively economical solution, which, I believe, will produce beneficial results. Sarah Ellison...
When lies come true, there are not too many places where one can get a grip on life. The idea of time in black writing, for example, of time as an index of progress, or as a context of history, has either no meaning or a dangerous one (Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, Invisible Man, struggles to escape from time...
...other troubles as well last week: as a result of a federal jury verdict, the network and two co-defendants must pay Writer Harlan Ellison $285,000 for plagiarism of a script about a robot police officer. After Ellison's proposal was rejected, ABC and Co-Defendant Paramount Pictures collaborated on a similar production called Future Cop. The feisty Ellison was aware of the risks of such a suit. "It's a company town," he says. "You blow the whistle and you don't work." Writers, some of whom complain that networks and producers constantly appropriate their...