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Remember, this is your last big weekend before reading period, so it's important to live life to the hilt, right? Well, the real action this weekend is down in Yarmouth at the Cape Cod Coliseum, as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 8/16/1974 | See Source »

...been little serious public consideration of the moral and political significance of the SLA program. With the notable exception of Ramparts, the long line of leftists ready to disown the SLA plus the major newspapers and newsmagazines which have played the sensational aspects of the Hearst case to the hilt have tended to obscure or at least to deal too briefly with serious issues raised by the history of the SLA: were its actions in any sense justified? If so--or if not--was the SLA's liquidation by the police and FBI justified? Have news media been providing sufficient...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: The SLA: Revolutionary Irresponsibility | 5/29/1974 | See Source »

...boots and levis, rub dirt into his hands, face and joints and he will be a working man for a day until a bath after supper has swept these petty distinctions from his natural form. Coleman's earnest, nearlaughable effort to play the role to its hilt--munching the very last of the grits at the oh-so blue-collar diner, mouthing the curse-words he once choked on in front of his students--bespeaks his own faith that only these outward circumstances distinguish the working...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Dog-Days for a White-Collar Man | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage and play themselves to the hilt...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: A Nest of Empty Boxes | 3/23/1974 | See Source »

...heart of this Dracula, oddly enough, is not the hero of Romania's early struggles for independence who gives it its title, but Catherine Dean, the Victorian heroine. Her willingness to act to the hilt--even in delivering lines on the order of "What were you doing over there with papa and the hammer and that horrible wooden stake?"--is astonishing. It's a willingness understandably not shared by most of the rest of the company--they have lots of lines like "I broke in when I heard the dogs howling" and "How is your daughter and her 'nervous prostration...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: That Horrible Wooden Stake | 10/20/1973 | See Source »

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