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...from the Supreme Court, the magazine published an account of the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision just as the court announced it. Warren Burger, who was then Chief Justice, was infuriated and demanded a meeting with TIME's editors. A group of them, including editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan, came down from New York to the Washington bureau, where I was then news editor, and we arranged a dinner in the bureau's offices on 16th Street...
...year is 1948 and though there has been no civil rights movement, the younger characters pay less attention to racial politics than the elder Hedley (Zakes Mokae). They are independent and proud, concerned more with integrity and poise than with the endless denouncement of the white devil...
Prominent in the goings on is Hedley, a fierce old man who sells sandwiches made from the chickens he slaughters in the tenement backyard. Wilson's style is down-to-earth realism, but his plays often have a mystical element or character, and almost as often that is where they go wrong. That's the case here. The misanthropic and mysterious Hedley becomes increasingly important to the plot and increasingly difficult to understand, undercutting the narrative drive and distracting the audience's attention from Floyd. At the same time, Floyd's money problems begin to involve several unseen characters. Instead...
...Munro, Nicholas & Co. in its failure to define the situation they inherited and the alternatives open to them. By the time they took over, the company had already become more than a little bit pregnant, a condition brought about by the preceding management team, led by Andrew Heiskell and Hedley Donovan, Luce's anointed successors. It was under that team that the company moved from straight journalism into flirtation with the glitzy world of entertainment, into cable television and the pop culture-oriented PEOPLE magazine (later to be joined by ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY...
...Invented Baseball," for example, Leslie Hedley elevates the sport to the status of an organized religion, albeit an unusually corny one. Hedley tells the bittersweet tale of a young man who is thrown off his ball team for refusing to participate in his coach's prayer sessions. Unfortunately, the author employs a nauseating stream-of-consciousness style--the entire story takes, place in the mind of a pitcher during one at-bat. In addition, the language used in this story is pretentious and unlikely--would a pitcher really refer to those "whose crayon mouths masticate rubbery soft and juices boil...