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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playwright Sherman, who has not made much of a splash in the decade since Bent, provides in A Madhouse in Goa the best new play of a fecund London year that has already brought new efforts from half-a-dozen top dramatists. Structurally, Sherman's show is two one-acts, but they are linked by one of the cleverest devices in memory. The first piece, A Table for a King, is an exquisitely painful tale of betrayals involving a pathetically dignified Mississippi matron, a sweetly awkward American college boy recovering from a thwarted homosexual infatuation, a casually seductive waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Trio of Triumphs in London | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...crimefighter so morally upright that he would wait for a red light to change before following criminals across the street. In a bizarre world of Penguins and Riddlers, Batman was the perfect straight-man. He never realized how fundamentally weird Gotham city was, and that's why the show was funny...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Comic Book Justice Strikes Again | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...ideal professor of poetry does a good deal to promote young poets at the university," said Lansdale. She noted that while Auden served as university poet, he held periodic office hours in a popular cafe and let aspiring young Oxford poets show him their work...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Heaney Named to Oxford Post | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 26 JUNE 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...hope my presence makes him comfortable." Chang describes his calm manner on and off the court as a residue of his Christian faith, though he does not dispute those who detect some Oriental mystery. "I guess that could be appropriate. I am a quiet person and do not show much emotion. My hobby is fishing, and fishing is very tranquil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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