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...half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto a covered area near the parking lot. Groused Pat Shaw, a waitress from Buffalo: "I've slept on concrete for three days, and the big moral question facing me at night is whether to sleep in my clothes or on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Marooned Terminal Children | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Three Plays for Bureaucrats--one-act jobs by Chekhov, Shaw and O'Casey at 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGE | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...enormity of the tragedy has been carefully reconstructed from the reports of many eyewitnesses. Some political theorists have defended it, as George Bernard Shaw and other Western intellectuals defended the brutal social engineering in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Yet it remains perhaps the most dreadful infliction of suffering on a nation by its government in the past three decades. The nation is Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Cambodia: An Experiment in Genocide | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...assumed machismo--as when, on exclaiming of Olivia, "She loves me sure," she girlishly claps her hands over her face, or repeatedly swoons at the prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint Joan. It is possibly no coincidence that the supreme traversal of both Viola and Saint Joan were given, in the late '50s, by Siobhan McKenna...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Here and There A 'Twelfth Night' | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

Major Barbara--Shaw for the Masses. At the Loeb Drama Center, Brattle St., Friday at 8, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

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