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MARRIED. Jill Clayburgh, 34, stage and film actress currently nominated for an Oscar for her role in An Unmarried Woman; and David Rabe, 39, playwright; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...started spending much of her time on the couch (and still keeps an appointment with an analyst every Wednesday). Then, following the inexorable law of any success story, her luck changed. The parts began coming in, and two years ago she met and began living with Playwright David Rabe, who has written The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones and Streamers. She and Rabe, 37, now share a big apartment on Manhattan's West Side, together with a mongrel puppy and, occasionally, Jason, Rabe's five-year-old son by a former marriage...
...figures tell only half the story. Papp was never happy at Lincoln Center. He has always been at his best working with new playwrights, and he gave a start to a new generation of young writers-David Rabe, Jason Miller, David Rudkin-who would not have been let in the front door by more profit-minded producers. The classics-with the exception of Shakespeare-make Papp nervous. He never felt at home with Lincoln Center audiences, who demanded at least some older plays to balance the new. Said Papp last week: "I feel I cannot grow at Lincoln Center...
...free the hostages was in the hands of the FBI and local police, under the command of Police Chief Maurice Cullinane. Attorney General Griffin Bell and FBI Director Clarence Kelley were kept briefed, but the night-and-day negotiations were conducted by seven men: Cullinane; Deputy Police Chief Robert Rabe; Nick Stames, chief of the FBI's Washington field office; FBI Agent Pat Mullany, the bureau's most skilled hostage negotiator; plus three diplomats whose admirable intervention may well have brought about the salvation of the hostages. It was, at first glance, an unlikely trio to be bargaining...
There was no way to tell if the meeting would be a sitdown or a shootout when the group assembled at 8:10 p.m. in the lobby of the B'nai B'rith Building. With the ambassadors were Chiefs Cullinane and Rabe, and the police commander, Joseph O'Brien, who had investigated the murder of Khaalis' children and was trusted by Khaalis...