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In some ways, the most impressive acting comes from the "troupe," the group of inmates who do not have specific roles in Sade's play, but behave as a sort of raving chorus. Like naughty children, they play leapfrog, poke each other's middles, and pull each other's hair...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

Or so it was believed. Paul Fussell, 59, a Pasadena-born Anglophile and former professor of English at Rutgers, asserts that there are nine rigid castes in the U.S. They range from the out-of-sight rich living off capital in grand seclusion, to the destitute, who are also well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Elite Don't Meet | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Prestige attached to garages re mains unsettled, but the family car had better not be a Mercedes, Rolls or Cadillac. Fussell assures us that the best upper-middles drive plain American models that are permanently dulled by a barely perceptible layer of dirt. Jeeps, he says, suggest that one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Elite Don't Meet | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

McPhee succeeds beyond expectation in revealing character in the disciplines of work. He, too, is very busy backing and filling to present a story that spans 4.6 billion years. Beginnings and middles can get lost in this world without end. Geology, which never tires of repeating itself, is oblivious to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reading Rocks | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

The gilt-seekers: Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., (D-Mass) candidate for re-election in the 11th Congressional District and Sen. Michael J. Lopresti Jr., candidate for re-election in the SuBolk and Middles Senate District. These two are taking advantage of the second consonant in Math Ar. Both...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Down to the Wire | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

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