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...parts, topped by Hamlet, Richard III, Iago and Henry V). Rosalind is longer even than Cleopatra, which is the most difficult of the women's roles. Bernard Shaw attributed the great popularity of Rosalind to three factors: she speaks blank verse only for a few minutes; she wears a skirt only a few minutes; and she makes love to the man instead of waiting for him to make love to her. The last idea of the woman-as-pursuer was especially dear to Shaw, who went on to use it as the basis for Ann Whitefield, the driving force...
...volunteers, the Burdens charted a relatively picturesque, somewhat historic, largely traffic-free, and not overly demanding route. Since crossing deserts is hazardous, the western end of the trail was kept wen to the north. The North Central plains tend toward macadam monotony, so the route drops south to skirt the Ozarks. To avoid urban sprawl, Bike-centennial is a Baedeker of back roads...
Following the herd instinct, several stars, including Taylor, Mario Thomas and Marisa Berenson, ordered their gowns from Halston. The popular mode was the strapless wisp of chiffon skirt slit to the waist, that seemed about to fly off or shiver to the floor. Margaux Hemingway, looking like a jumbo stick of red-and-white peppermint candy, stumbled fetchingly over the names she read aloud; Elliott Gould, aware that practically every man present was betting on the results of the night's basketball game, produced the most popular aside of the night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic...
...from Communism is a curiously uneven book, a mixture, on one hand, of impeccable scholarship and, on the other, easy simplifications that skirt the issues raised by such conversions. The basic flaw is that Diggins finds himself unable to achieve a serious interpretation of the intellectual evolution of these four men, due to his own preoccupation with the politics of the sixties and seventies. Unable to distinguish these intellectual conservatives from the likes of Nixon, he ends by trying to subtly discredit them. If it is true, as one former radical said, that "the final struggle will be between...
...than Orion Barger's South Dakota small townies, there are none more ingeneously endearing. One couple is especially memorable in their commonplaceness, a middle-aged man sweeping a fat homely woman up in his arms. She clutches a frumpy purse in one hand and him in the other; her skirt hitches up over her knees. Probably she would blush slightly, looking at the picture later, and explain to anyone looking over her shoulder, "Oh, that's when we were younger, when we had just gotten married. We were a bit silly then." The couple in the picture don't care...