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...spoke fondly of death as "a servant" who comes when called, but she flubbed a suicide attempt. Her one beloved companion, an aunt, thought her writings were bosh. In her best-known poem she wrote...
...witness to Don Juan's exploits, and a teeming flagon of comic relief, is his servant Sganarelle (Roy Brocksmith). He makes cowardice an art form. Brocksmith has some of the elephantine grace of Zero Mostel. Seitz's Don Juan is a triumph of stylized scorn. He scuttles about the stage crab-fashion. He gazes into a mirror as if to blot out the scum of the earth. Even in wooing, he masks any show of passion. He is, for certain, a radical Don Juan...
...Bombay-born son of a civil servant, Rabbitt became interested in aging by accident, when conducting routine tests in connection with his Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge, which showed widely varying reactions between young and old. He once tested some 2,000 people in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the U.S. Public Health Service, and his current project is a thorough study of 500 old people in the Oxford area. Though his picture of failing memory is stark, Rabbitt points out that the description hardly fits everyone: 5% to 10% of people in their 70s have memories just as reliable as their...
...TIME has learned from sources close to the ruling clerics that as many as 150 people were killed. The authorities acknowledged the deaths of major leaders in the party but did not cite many anonymous powerbrokers and activists who also perished. The result, according to a senior Iranian civil servant, was that "the terrorists effectively beheaded the I.R.P...
Phelps' updated dialogue offers a feminist case against marriage: "A wife is like a house dog tied with a rope. Why should I be a servant and wait upon a husband...