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"Mountains are metaphors," Harold says, but imminent death is not. The two men jest, curse and trade raw-tongued obscenities-all impotent delaying actions. Playwright Meyers tries to penetrate the core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: White Hell | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Then, Byrne had just nosed past former Mayor Michael Bilandic, owing the narrow margin to a severe snowstorm and the largest Black voter turnout in the city's history. Byrne immediately thanked her Black constituency and pledged that she would meet with Black leader Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, to...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Sore Losers | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

In a sense, Part I forecloses an epoch. Ibsen encompasses the dying out of old legends and old gods, the anachronism of the early 19th century Byronic romantic hero and the ushering in of urban industrial society with its hard-nosed pragmatism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In the Realm of the Trolls | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Providence defenseman Randy Velishek nosed out teammate Kurt Kleinendorst and the elder Fusco in the coaches voting for ECAC Player of the Year Both Fusco and Kleinendorst had more impressive scoring statistics, but the Friars' senior co-captain has a reputation as an expert defensive-minded blueliner.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fusco Brothers Named All-ECAC | 3/11/1983 | See Source »

HONDURAS. The poverty-stricken Miskito Indians who eke out an existence in the northeastern Honduras department of Gracias a Dios had never seen anything like it. As U.S. Air Force C-141 transports and giant C5-A Galaxies roared overhead, Honduran special-forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: The Rising Tides of War | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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