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...when the strip had hit its stride, it had pretty much vacated Walden for more pertinent venues: Cambodia, California, Washington. The show, however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Soon to Be a Minor Sitcom | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

There are journalists who see their work as a semi-official responsibility in a democracy, like another branch of government. On the inside too long, they become bureaucrats, watching that everyone meets certain rules of conduct, distributing each candidate's publicity fairly in their pages, pigeon-holing the latest events in their columns...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Controlling the Fourth Estate | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

Neither of the Boks will name a favorite dish, claiming that Sternin's range is too broad Sternin, for his part, notes that his bosses' sense of culinary adventure is quite well developed, saying. "They'll eat anything I even tried out a Moroccan pigeon pie on them--and they loved...

Author: By Diane M. Cardwell, | Title: From Confucius to Champignons Sautes | 10/1/1983 | See Source »

BOSTON'S STATUES LIKE THOSE of most modern cities in the United States, go pretty much unnoticed these days, except for the sporadic attention of a few graffiti artists and the ever-present urban pigeon. The Bicentennial celebrations of the mid 1970s, a high-water mark for statuesque snapshots of Paul Revere and the Minutemen, attracted a mob of patriotic Americans who looked for history etched in stone, but since then Bostonian public sculpture had faded into the surrounding landscape once again. Now, though, controversy over one such artistic conception of the past may result in the removal...

Author: By Evan T. Bart, | Title: Out of the Bronze Age | 1/7/1983 | See Source »

...first 13 years. They then proceed to the old stone farmhouse outside town where he and his parents moved in 1945. They find his mother Linda, 78, still living there, cheerful, alert and willing to guide visitors through the landscape that her son transcribed in the stories of Pigeon Feathers (1962) and the novels The Centaur (1963) and Of the Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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