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BARC certainly whizzes through its first tongue-teasing test, but dock, trog, pan and slack are still to come. As for Stoppard, this time it is hard to say whether he preys on words or words prey on him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Katt's Ploy | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

In September 1973 George Schaller and Peter Matthiessen began a 500 mile trek from the Himalayan town of Pokhara to the unspoiled Crystal Mountains and back. Schaller, an ethologist, went to research mating behavior among a wild herd of bharal, the blue sheep of the Himalayas. He wanted to confirm...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: He Stalks Himself | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

As packets of pulsing light, faeries were the UFOs of our ancestral imagination. On closer encounter, the world of Faerie, as the authors designate their enchanting nutshell universe, reveals a swarm of terrifying and erotic forms: gruesome spriggans who specialize in kidnaping infants and blighting crops; horse-stealing pixies; a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Enchanted Circle | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Nor is the house of Isaac merely out of control; it is also under attack. The Lollipop Gang, a trio of teen-age terrorists, preys on Isaac's women, roughing up Ida and stalking Marilyn. A Lower East Side liberation front, the Lollipops wage a perverse holy war on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Terrible Beauty | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

The police are searching for a 6-ft., 190-lb. man with stringy blond hair. Deputy Chief George N. Beck says that a psychiatric profile describes the killer as "a jackal ... a loner, some guy who probably lives like a hermit and only creeps out of his hole to commit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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