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...sold worldwide) from his 1937 start. But he still puts in eight hours a day, five days a week at his desk, although the desk now overlooks the Pacific from the dream house he helped design. Geisel, whose nom de plume is an amalgam of his mother's maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this year Coleco, purveyors from the Cabbage Patch, will offer...
...Giovanni's past conquests--Margery Hellmold '83 captures woman's confused love-hate feelings toward Giovanni with her emotional outbursts through her buoyant arias and desperate recitative interplay with the seducer himself. Junior Jeanine Bowman's Zerlina complements the other two women with her performance as an innocent country maiden, who almost falls into Giovanni's web Less emotional and more straightforward than Anna or Elvira. bowman's Zerlina is delightful with her quieter yet charming voice that reveals her character's naivete and dedication to her country bumpkin of a finance...
...problem with the little boosters, called PAMs (for payload-assist modules), is resolved soon, some upcoming lift-offs may have to be postponed. PAMs are scheduled to be used for satellite launches in May as the upper stage of a conventional Delta rocket and in June during the maiden voyage of the third shuttle, Discovery. Insurance brokers are now warning of rising premiums, if such policies remain available, for future satellite launches. The loss of Westar and Palapa will cost underwriters $180 million. Also NASA could lose business if concern about the reliability of American rocketry encourages customers to turn...
Huppert, too often the ice maiden of French movies (The Lacemaker, Loulou), merges sugar and steel to embody the superior, frustrated Lena. In her face and gestures, Miou Miou finds reasons for each of Madeleine's enigmatic quirks...
...cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos are often first broached on soap operas. In October, for example, the creators of All My Children arranged the maiden, if not maidenly, appearance of a continuing lesbian character...