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How delicate they all really are, and how fragile their dream. For every flying Carl Lewis there is a fallen Mary Decker, and the fullest appreciation of sport requires both. Joan Benoit breezes in gracefully from her marathon, while Gabriela Andersen-Schiess lurches along grotesquely behind, and the picture-memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: What It Was About | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

After the British government responded by breaking relations with the government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and giving his representatives until midnight Sunday to vacate the premises in London, it seemed at first that the petulant Gaddafi might hold out until the last possible moment before repatriating his people. The British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: We Want Them Out! | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Rebecca Downs plays the shepherdess Phyllis, with whom all the peers fall in love. She has a petulant soprano voice that warbles beautifully while she reveals her character's spoiled naivetes. She spins a web that entraps not only the nobles and the half-mortal, Strephen (Jay Kelly), but also...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: 'Iolanthe': Pastoral Perfection | 4/18/1984 | See Source »

What follows is frequently funny and pointed but sometimes mutes Norman's natural voice and sounds uncomfortably like those of other playwrights. There are Neil Simonesque one-liners: "Life is summer camp, and death is lights-out." Ibsenesque dialectic about values: "God found God, and it was Man: God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blasted Garden | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Dorothy never has time to make any discoveries about herself and her would: she is merely Snider's sacrificial lovely. Snider does love her, but he also sees an exploitable innocence; she is a property that he can ride our of his world of cars and girls--into a world...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

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