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Senator Daniel Inouye may not believe that a Senator should be expelled for being a fool-but I cannot think of a better reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...severely while they achieve it. His no-nonsense prose prohibits moral posturing. All of these stories were written first in Yiddish, a language that draws rough vitality from the vernacular; Singer has seen to it that his many translators preserve the outspoken qualities of the originals. (Gimpel the Fool was rendered in English by Saul Bellow, a rare instance of one future Nobel laureate transcribing another.) And the passage of time has ratified Singer's vision of the living and the dead busily coexisting. The places of many of his stories are no more, their inhabitants long since slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedness and Wonders | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...laxwomen, who traveled to exotic and far-off Philadelphia, spent their break accumulating a 4-1 record, dropping only a 10-2 decision to Temple on April Fool...

Author: By John Beilenson and Becky Hartman, S | Title: Lacrosse Teams Cruise During Break; Women Win 4 in Philly; Men Go 2-1 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...SCARY discovering your own vulnerability for the first time and having to acknowledge the shells we build around ourselves--those delicate shells we show the world and fool ourselves with too. The folks prancing on stage at the Rocky Horror Picture Show each week have power over their audience because they take no risks and reveal nothing of themselves. Their costumes can never change, and even their hand movements and nervous tics are choreographed. On Friday night at midnight the weekday working stiff is temporarily absolved of all responsibility, hidden behind a satin and greasepaint shell...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Tilting | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

PERSONAL AND SEXUAL politics, rather than corporate ones, tease and distort the audience's expectations in the evening's second play, Bonnie Salomon's Who's the Fool Now? which takes its inspiration from the true story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Labor and Love | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

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