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Perversely, some sufferers begin to resent their own attractiveness. An afflicted New York lawyer, married and the mother of a baby girl, was enraged when a construction worker would flirt or whistle. "You bastard," she thought, "little do you know I'm poisoned." New York Architect Geoffrey Meisel refused to go into bars for months after he got herpes, because he felt like a fake. "You're putting on this great front when you know that deep down inside you is this lesion...
This newest in a long string of British spy scandals came to light with the announcement that Geoffrey Arthur Prime, 44, a former employee of GCHQ, had been arrested and charged with violating Section 1 of Britain's Official Secrets Act. Officials would give no details of the accusations against Prime, but that section of the act deals with, among other things, the passing on of secret codes or documents to a potential enemy. A Russian-language specialist, Prime had worked at GCHQ from 1968 to 1977. He then left voluntarily and subsequently held jobs as a taxi driver...
NONFICTION: Dorothy Day, William D. Miller ∙ The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin ∙Poets in Their Youth, Eileen Simpson ∙ Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage, Geoffrey Skelton ∙Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate ∙Uncivil Liberties, Calvin Trillin
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...