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There may be more to it than that. Perhaps folk tales are so enduring because now, as in the days of outlaw heroes and headless horsemen, legends endow life with the mystery, awe and romance that make it endurable. Or perhaps folk tales, old and new, urban and rural, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legends | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

In the play's final sequence, Spelvin's role is that of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. For the first time, Spelvin is more than baffled. He feels a chill of apprehension, and rightly so, as he hears the stage directions: "The Executioner will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

One hears stories like this when sitting around at the tennis club, or some similarly benign place, of an August afternoon. They are no more than extended anecdotes, these tales, but spun out at a certain lazy length with persuasive details added by a sympathetic storyteller, they sometimes cling to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imprisonment | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Harvard and Brown. One hears those names over, and over when talking to coaches, players, and other affiances of Ivy League and Eastern women's soccer.

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Booters Travel to Providence, Seeking Fifth Straight Victory | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

IT WAS 3 a.m., and from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bad Book | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

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