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"I am the champion arm wrestler. Who will challenge me?" roared British Actor Oliver Reed (Women in Love) as he swaggered into a rustic, 160-year-old drinking and dining establishment in Stowe, Vt. A customer jokingly volunteered, but before the two men could lock forearms, Reed, 43, turned the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1981 | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Nunn and Co-Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dickens of a Show: NICOLAS NICKELBY | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

The last of those assaults occurred on the morning of the sentencing. A bomb blast ripped up a section of rail line outside the coastal city of East London-one more sign that the ANC, which was outlawed in 1960, is trying harder than ever to induce a climate of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Terror and Repression | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

An equally hapless citizen was once told by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable." Until recently American newspapers were delightfully unrestrained when it came to abuse; a New England journal greeting Jefferson's election, for instance, with particular enthusiasm:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Have All the Insults Gone? | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

If this production is not as memorable as the original, however, it is still, by the standards of most musicals, very good indeed. Nicholas Wyman is a delightfully silly Freddy Eynsford-Hill, the bumbling aristocrat who falls in love with Eliza at Ascot and thereafter spends most of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Still Loverly | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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