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Richardson generally has good things to say about Harvard, particularly about its students. "They're your employer and if you didn't treat the students right, you wouldn't have a job," he says after handing an alligator-shirted sophomore a key to lock her closet...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...rulers prided themselves on their armories, and in Washington an airy gallery evokes the power and pageantry of their court. The gallery is dominated by a mounted knight in full ceremonial armor, flanked by armor for a six-year-old boy; the walls bristle with swords, crossbows and wheel-lock pistols, and are enlivened by four panels showing jousters at the moment of impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Splendor Inside the Walls | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...third time he returns to her is permanent, in terms of the movie, after Madame Rosa's death. He and the dying woman lock themselves up in a wine cellar she had converted into her "Jewish hideaway" so she could die there rather than in a hospital; she does. Momo doesn't eat and leaves only once during the three weeks he stays with the body. Firemen break through the cellar door and discover both the body and Momo. They also find Madame Nadine's number in his pocket and call...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Substance Over Form | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...pattern for thousands of years. Living in a little beleaguered nation-state makes me feel like an old man in a kindergarten. Yet I should stick to it for as long as every other nation does. As long as everyone else in the neighborhood is going to have a lock on his door, bars on his windows, guns, airplanes and what not, I am going to have the same and even more. I am determined to play the bloody game according to its bloody rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Reflections on an Anniversary | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...with Caligula and to understand the magnitude of his misery--the torture that drives an individual to such sadism. But Martinez delivers the lines in a flip, spiteful tone--not at all imploringly or sensitively--and, as a result, another numeral of the combination to the play's thematic lock fails to click with the audience...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Tripping Through Tragedy | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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