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...mean to slight the teaching abilities of the instructor, but rather indicate the problems encountered in the presentation of new ideas. Virtually everything taught in the weekly sessions is contained in an essay presented by Hoberman at UMass last year. The field, obviously, is largely unexplored...
Coming from almost any author but Samuel Beckett, 70, these two collections might seem slight to the point of frippery. Ends and Odds contains eight brief pieces for the stage, radio or television. Fizzles offers an even more self-derisive title, generous margins, plenty of white space and eight snippets of prose, the longest of which does not quite fill nine pages. Yet in Beckett's case, the oddity is not that $13.90 (plus tax) purchases so few words, but that those words were written...
Susan Hampshire added her own dimension to Glencora. "I never forgave her for allowing herself to marry a man without love," she says, "and I never came to terms with her for that reason. So I took a slight license, and I warmed up the relationship between them." Despite previous Emmy Award-winning roles in other series-as Fleur Forsyte, Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and Sarah Churchill in The First Churchills -Hampshire, 34, was still only the third candidate for Glencora. Pauline Collins, the saucy under-houseparlormaid Sarah of Upstairs, Downstairs, demanded more money than the producers wanted...
With that, the warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. "Bang! Bang! Bang! Three noises," Witness Schiller reported later. Actually, four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since 1967. After a series of unsuccessful appeals that lasted until the very morning of the execution, what the warden called...
Policymaking has its pitfalls. Each special-interest group usually concludes that policy tilts to favor some other group-like the man who outlived two wives, Tilly and Milly, and wished to be buried between them, with a slight tilt toward Milly...