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...said Richard C. Marius, who heads Expository Writing. "Now everyone has read Stephen King. In understanding children and adults and evil and their confrontation with evil, Stephen King is in a class with Henry James and the Turn of the Screw. He is a lot better than Edgar Allen Poe...
Nancy Thompson was a modern Nancy Drew. And in Renny Harlin's Nightmare 4, Alice Johnson is Alice in Wonderland, falling through the hole of her consciousness into a war with the Mad Felt-Hatter. All the Nightmare films are compact encyclopedias of classical and pop allusions. They quote Poe and Cocteau, Hamlet and Balinese dream theory; they crib ruthlessly from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaws, Poltergeist and themselves. They are cultural carnivores...
...these days, churning out operas, film scores and instrumental music with the tireless industry of an 18th century Kapellmeister. Unlike Haydn, though, Glass has no Prince Esterhazy to keep him in livery, only his appetite for work. In May his The Fall of the House of Usher, based on Poe's grisly tale, opened in Cambridge, Mass. Seven weeks later, the Houston Grand Opera premiered his operatic setting of Doris Lessing's novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Now, and most spectacularly, comes 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in Vienna. The production will tour...
...program. We orient them, explain how we operate and then set them to work." Four of TIME's interns are assigned to various sections of the magazine as reporter-researchers: Borras, who attends the University of Florida, is in World; Princeton's Lee is in the Humanities cluster; Charles Poe of Baylor is in Economy & Business; and Brown's David Gross is working for the International editions. In addition, Harvard's Masters is serving as a correspondent in TIME's New York bureau, and Bruce Strong of the Rochester Institute of Technology is a researcher in the magazine's picture...
...Baltimore, city of Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken, of Johnny Unitas and Brooks Robinson, of aluminum-siding salesmen and rampaging transvestites! How lucky thou art to have two sublimely eccentric moviemakers, Barry Levinson and John Waters, as native sons who sing your praises! Levinson set his two best movies, Diner and Tin Men, in the Baltimore of the late '50s and early '60s. Waters has made all eleven of his pictures, from the coprophagous comedy Pink Flamingos to the all-stinking Polyester (filmed in Odorama), in his hometown...