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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriate word. Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. Recently, she became an author as well. The Bright Lights: A Theatrical Life is not the autobiography of a famous person, because "I'm not famous." Nor is it a book of Theatrical Celebrities gossip, though memories of Tallulah Bankhead and Laurence Olivier fill the pages. Instead, The Bright Lights interweaves anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: An Actor's Actress | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...Carter Administration to endorse a $12.5 million federal grant for Energy Expo, a sort of world's fair planned for 1982 in Knoxville. Carter announced approval of the plan even before Commerce Department officials had cleared their share of the grants. "That's why I'm going to make a good Governor," Butcher said last week. "I'm going to have this same kind of influence over the President when I'm Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jake Butcher: Another Lance? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Emigration. I'm sure that we'll never encourage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Americanology | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Soviet Arms Buildup. You say that you have slowed down and that we have not. This is not correct. We too have slowed the development of systems of missiles and planes; I cannot name them, but I'm certain that we have. All we are doing is catching up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Americanology | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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