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...slow start, in which stilted heroic attitudes virtually define Bad Regional Theater, Odysseus appears, in the burly, assured person of Casey Biggs, and the play takes off. Mythology can be fun when Circe is a sassy dominatrix, the Sirens are mermaids out of a Bette Midler show, and Helen of Troy is a peckish, past-her-prime star who puts on airs -- Bea Arthur trying to be Bea Lillie. All this to Galt $ MacDermot's bouncy, familiar music -- it could be played in the lobby at a Club Med hotel...
...leaves two sisters, Monique Ribaute and Arlette Jouasset of France; and three stepdaughters Alison T. and Helen R. Streider of Brooklin, and Merritt S. Atwood of Freeland, Wash...
...before carrying water for the department store in Parliament. Hamilton, however, is going out swinging, insisting he did nothing wrong and threatening to sue The Guardian -- the paper that broke the scandal. His resignation may be good news for scandal-plagued Prime Minister John Major. Explains TIME London reporter Helen Gibson: "Now, Hamilton can fight his own battle without bringing down the government...
...permanent -- a stance that was widely viewed as unnecessarily obstinate and taken to placate pro-British loyalists. When the IRA's chief antagonists, the Ulster Loyalists, followed up with a similar declaration on Oct. 13, "that gave Major the signal that he could go ahead," says TIME London reporter Helen Gibson. Major also lifted a ban on Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' visiting Britain and said all border crossings with the Republic of Ireland will be opened...
Among the less reticent were people who are paid to discuss sex: therapists, Cosmopolitan editors, Penthouse publishers. "Dr. Ruth Westheimer suggested that one option left out of the study's sexual-preferences section was sex under the armpit," says New York correspondent John F. Dickerson. "Helen Gurley Brown explained her 'rent a husband' theory, where an older single woman can get a married man who 'would be happy to oblige because he's probably not getting it at home.' And Bob Guccione told me he had never met a man who had not masturbated or a woman...