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Everyone we know? And preferably not as corpses." In an early flashback to Arnie's desolation after the death of his wife, he climbs on the back of a giant turtle swim ming out to sea. "Take me to the deep," Arnie says, but the creature swims out from under him and is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perplexities | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

While reading The Crimson's series on Harvard's finals clubs, an interesting thought came to ming: If Jusse Jackson is elected President will the Porcellian Club give him a lour of the tip stars? Senn E. Judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porcellian Tours | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...good or ill, the current Broadway revival brings Williams down to earth. This time the moonbeams are paved with asphalt. Though Designer Ming Cho Lee has buttressed the Wingfield's St. Louis home with fleecy clouds, he has furnished it in a sturdy naturalistic style. Director John Dexter has paced the play to move one resolute step at a time, and encouraged the actors to deliver their lines with clarion force. This is a "solid" production, but it should be buoyant. The Wingfields imbibe a kind of emotional helium; only the guy wires of propriety keep them from floating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Moonbeams Paved with Asphalt THE GLASS MENAGERIE | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...produced by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., against 15 alleged participants in a casino skimming conspiracy involving millions. The defendants include Mafia chiefs in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee and the Chicago Mob's reputed enforcer of its operations in Las Vegas. The charges, stem ming from a five-year FBI investigation, challenge the repeated claims by Nevada casino regulators that skimming and the heavy hand of organized crime had been largely eliminated from the gambling capital. The indictment contends that the conspiracy was still operating as recently as Sept. 30, when the sealed pa pers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking the Mob's Grip | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Next day, after an early morning flight to Ningpo's carefully guarded airport, Chiang bounced and jostled by auto over a one-lane dirt road some 40 miles to Fenghwa, his home town, in the knob-topped Sze Ming Mountains. Nestled on a pine and laurel-covered slope is the Gimo's one-story, four-room retreat. A few feet up the slope is a wood and stone arch inscribed with the legend: "Road to Mother Chiang's Tomb." Through it passes a wide-stepped pebble and flagstone walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1949: China: What Can Li Do? Chiang Kaishek Steps Down | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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