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The masterminds behind these syrupy confections bristle at the critical drubbing their shows usually get. Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New...
If America's smart weapons make Soviet hardware look bad, there is another lesson for Moscow and Beijing to learn -- one far less pleasing to the West. Saddam Hussein's mobile missile launchers proved very difficult to counter, and even his primitive Scuds, though little more than terror weapons, indicated...
FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER by Gail Godwin (Morrow; 404 pages; $21.95). Margaret Gower is six on the day (Sept. 13, 1972) she comes home from school to learn that her mother has abandoned her and her father Walter, the rector of St. Cuthbert's Episcopal Church in the small Virginia...
In the pivotal scene of the off-Broadway Absent Friends, one of two Alan Ayckbourn works from the 1970s making New York City debuts (the other, Taking Steps, opened last week on Broadway), a man rattles on about his drowned fiance to old friends who never met her. Because Colin...
Hussein will be replaced by another dictator, and the cycle will continue. Removing U.S. influence from the region as soon as possible is the only way to allow the people of the region to have self-determination. Certainly, there are countless details that cannot fit into this letter. This solution...