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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooly ambivalent humor. She's aware of the moral, political, and intellectual paradoxes of the "Big Science" that can provide all this amazing circuitry. She projects radar dishes, poses tough questions--"Should the unborn have civil rights?"--and takes a science lesson to absurd lengths by wondering what would happen if sperm were the size of sperm whales and decided to impregnate Japan...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...What may happen when Warren must relinquish the honor is already a vexing question. The prospect of regular spats over who will be the next laureate does not seem terribly poetic. Fairly soon the U.S. will have accumulated more laureates than the 18 that England has amassed in almost 300 years. In a calendar sent to friends and constituents, Matsunaga has written, "If the lessons of human experience were all written in verse, we might better learn and remember them." One metrical piece of advice: "Abandon what's foreign/ After Penn Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Nation's Poet | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...want to ask a favor from rooming groups 1-400. Don't tell the rest of us that there's no use being upset since we can't change the number. Just let us be angry. And if we happen to call you lots of mean and nasty names, don't take it personally. Next year we'll be too far away to give you a hard time anyway...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Playing the Lottery | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

Rough for Theatre I etches out the unexpected meeting of a blind beggar and a wheelchair-bound cripple. While many of Beckett's plays are about "endings" that can't happen, Rough I is about an impossible beginning. After exchanging anecdotes about the miserableness of their lives, the two principal characters realize that they might be able to live together and derive solace from each other's company as each has something that the other lacks. But the pride of the cripple (played by Eric Oleson) and the dreamy quality of beggar (Harold Langsam) render this plan unworkable...

Author: By Michael R. Mcadoo, | Title: Short and Sweet | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...friends may have as much as $10 billion invested in Western banks and real estate. When the final decision was being made by Marcos to either abdicate or fight the demonstrators outside the Presidential palace, Imelda Marcos reportedly asked her husband, "If we wipe them out, what will happen to our assets...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Money for Nothing, Trips for Free | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

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