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...Vegetable Play: "I am a carrot... I am a string bean... I am a cranshaw melon." The characters announce their problems rather than portray them, and then move to renounce them, rather than resolve them. When Toni's friend Nina announces "I have confidence, I'm wild, I'm radiant, I'm magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting "Be it, don't say it." Nina talks incessantly about her daughter, who we are to believe is the most important person in her life--and yet we never see her daughter on stage, let alone the interplay...

Author: By Barbara Fried, | Title: Out of Focus | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot had settled there in a small artery, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anatomy of an Embolus | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Married. Antoinette Sibley, 35, diminutive, radiant superstar of Britain's Royal Ballet; and Panton Corbett, 36, London banker; both for the second time; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 22, 1974 | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Which brings us to President Bok, the humblest president Harvard has. He's nearly always radiant. And Senator Charles Percy (R-Ill.) wanted him to be the special Watergate prosecutor, so he must be terrific. When you come to think about it, his stands on controversial issues are rather nice-looking. But they happen about as often as Radcliffe loses at tennis, so they're sometimes hard to remember. Bok's 1972 statement about Portuguese colonialism was one of the best and most recent examples--Bok probably wasn't used to his job yet, so the statement was pretty...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Hush, Hush, Sweet Derek | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

...Charlotte informed Wilbur the Pig. "Nearly all spiders are rather nice-looking. I may not be as flashy as some, but I'll do." And in the clutch, when Mr. Arable was going to cut Wilbur up for pork, she did. "Some pig," she wrote in her web. "Terrific. Radiant. Humble." Mr. Arable let him off with a blue ribbon...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Hush, Hush, Sweet Derek | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

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