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...irrelevant, merely serving as an excuse for Stoppard to play with conventions of the stage. Set in a Gothic mansion on the moors, a group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger (Goldfarb) who seems to fit the description of the fugitive. Who is he, and what will happen...
...Failure," said Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 42, last week, "is part of any mission of this magnitude." Gandhi was comforting India's space scientists after the country's newest rocket ended its maiden flight in a watery crash, a fate that also befell an American Atlas-Centaur rocket later in the week. But Gandhi could easily have been speaking of even more unhappy news that reached him the same day. In two of three state elections, his Congress (I) Party had suffered major setbacks at the hands of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the strongest of the country...
Soon the big moment arrived and I was escorted back down the hall into another room where Steve sat at a small table. As he reached over and pumped my hand, I couldn't help wondering if he was discerning my mother's maiden name, my address, and my favorite food in those few seconds...
...challenge. Lights, camera, no action. "The movie doesn't have a single automobile chase," notes the director dryly. "No gun duels. The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port." On a snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young man," who is preparing some after-dinner remarks with allusions to Browning and classical antiquity that, he fears, will sail over the heads of his unsophisticated audience...
...matter how pneumatic and now these misses are, they are never far removed from the maiden in the tower or the girl in the glass slipper, yearning to be rescued from her room and from her medieval homework. To Sara Wilford, director of the Early Childhood Center at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, "it is not so strange that children would find a Barbie doll to be interesting, something they could idealize and put in a Cinderella framework...