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The plot on which Shaw hangs his message is fairly simple. The Patient, a whining invalid stifled by her mother's overweening care, allows herself to be kidnapped by her sexy new "nurse" and a smooth-talking preacher-turned-burglar, named, respectively, Sweetie and Popsy. The three set out in...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Shaw's Sleeper--Dreams and Nightmares | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

Less than a year ago, he was one of the last absolute monarchs on earth. He appointed governments, made laws, and held life-and-death power over his 26 million subjects. Since February, the once unchallengeable powers of the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings, Elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The End of the Lion of Judah | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

An awkward silence followed. It was broken only when the ex-Emperor protested, "We have served our people in war and peace." Minutes later, he was led out of his marble palace to a tiny blue two-door Volkswagen. The monarch who for years had been chauffeur-driven in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The End of the Lion of Judah | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Joseph's son, the district commissioner, Franz, leads the life of a model imperial civil servant, correct if a little stupid, and his son Carl Joseph becomes a moderately well-meaning lieutenant in an imperial army without much coherence or purpose. He causes the death of his only friend, the...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Remembering in Decline | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Roth found that those who lived on memories of beautiful secrets ran into problems with those whose interests demanded quick and complete forgetting. In 1933, just a year after he published The Radestzky March, he left Germany--he was a Catholic son of Jewish parents, and known as an anti...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Remembering in Decline | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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