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This wrought-up lad moves on to higher, wider-ranging transgressions-from biting an usherette on the leg to raping and killing "little Suzie," his date at the junior prom. Yet each exploit is explained and excused by the same hard-rocking ironic chorus: "Well, he's just an excitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Devotees believe Krishna takes his bodily form and visits men in every millenium, bringing his spiritual knowledge to earth. Krishna is supposed to have taken the bodily form during the first century A.D. in the village of Braj in North India. He is portrayed as a mischievous lad in The Round Dance of Krishna, a poem by Nanddas written in the 16th century and based on Sanskrit texts. Krishna is chased along the banks of the Jumnu River by 160 women and with an affected reluctance allows them to catch him. While declaring the strength of love, he multiplies himself...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: 'Hare Hare' | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...should read Breslin. He's a foine ruddy Irish lad who latched onto that foine ruddy Irish pol Tip O'Neill to become the Giant Leprechaun who could set the truth free about Watergate...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Hannibal and nearly defeated Russia in its "winter war" with Finland, is much misunderstood. Thought of as sterile, it .eems with microorganisms, from single-celled creatures to the ice worms immortalized in Robert Service's poem The Bal lad of Blasphemous Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White on White | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...other ways. The setting is Ireland, scene of the author's most exuberant and successful prose. Reginald Darcy Thormond Dancer Kildare is not another Sebastian Dangerfield, the irrepressible Ginger Man, but one of Donleavy's sensitive young souls. His mother dies when Darcy is young and the lad inherits Andromeda Park, a venerable estate that has seen better days and will see worse. Darcy's absentee father lunges at the inheritance, making his son's life miserable. Sure and it is a long, crowded road that Darcy must travel before his story ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Maundering | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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