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...summer colors or basic Beckett black. Inside, they toted books by or about the master. When the curtain rose, their attention was votive; they laughed and sighed and never dared cough. The dangling melodramatic ending of one play elicited a collective gasp, like that of a child hearing a ghost story's tantalizing punch line. At the curtain calls their faces beamed at the actors with rapture and gratitude. In the lobby afterward they bought T shirts reading GATE THEATRE--BECKETT FESTIVAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: DISPELLING THE GLOOM | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...shoved aside Shaquille O'Neal, Alexander Karelin, Billy Payne and all the big, bad Olympians. There were other heroes, to be sure, in the first eight days of the 16-day competition, but none as compelling as the Seven Sisters of U.S. gymnastics (see page 42). In this ghost town on Saturday, one could only wish that they might magically reappear to make all of Atlanta--spectator, Olympian, official--braver. After all, in just a few hours last week, they had crystallized and reminded us of the intent of the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASTER, HIGHER, BRAVER | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...Time Warner's $6.54 billion acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. And so, early this fall, a deal is expected to be cut between Time Warner chairman Gerald M. Levin, TBS founder Ted Turner and Tele-Communications Inc. president John Malone: the unsteady father, the unruly son and the unholy ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MARRIAGE IS BLESSED | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Most students agree that Thayer has become a ghost dorm, with residents leaving to socialize elsewhere...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Vandal Policy Harsh, Thayer Residents Say | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

...course, if ever you get bored of the special effects and Fox turning around in surprise and wiping his nose, there's always a mildly offensive stereotypical character (one of Bannister's ghost friends) or a gross, gratuitous blood-bath thinly hidden by quick camera cutting...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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