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...stets set with rugged wooden posts a pair of up stage stairs and down stage floor-traps and a few basis pieces of furniture that can be raised or lowered instantaneously. This allows for maximum fluidity and Coe has taken good advantage of it. Chapman's costumes sometimes smack of the bargain basement, but the AST is counting pennies these days in order to survive Mare B. Weiss back here for the 18th time, has helped the production enormously with his mood-enhancing lighting...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Mixed Bag at Stratford | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

With much of Beirut a combat zone last week, there was scarcely a place in the city that did not seem to be smack in the center of the action. "People broke into tears out of sheer nervous exhaustion," reported Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart after one particularly harrowing day of bombardment. So widespread was the destruction in mostly Muslim West Beirut, where TIME'S offices are situated, that Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro was dispatched across the Green Line, which divides the city, so that he could begin operating from the predominantly Christian east side. "In effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 28, 1982 | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...stage, from 1965 to 1972. "Satisfaction" was also a song about America, specifically, about fast women and grabbing for success. The drugs soon entered this fast-moving world, and the bad little boys began growing into the reputations carved out for them as early as 1963. Eventually, the dope, smack, uppers and downers, the busts and jail sentences, piled up to form a wall even the Stones could not scale. They stayed home from 1967-69, recording ever more varied and inventive albums--Between the Buttons, Beggar's Banquet. Let it Bleed, but remained largely invisible to the outside world...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Rockin' The U.S.A. | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...dissuade potential gays from pursuing an undesirable lifestyle. The GSA's demand that Pattullo apologize and that the University investigate his academic practices threw wide open the debate over the origins of homosexuality and in the absence of conclusive scientific answers, that debate drifts inevitably back to regions that smack of homophobia...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Waging a Delicate Battle | 6/8/1982 | See Source »

...Williams. There will be great pressure on the Senators to show that they have the will to enforce their own standards of conduct. But the Senate is a clubby place, and some members may push for mere censure or a reprimand. Many Senators think the FBI'S tactics smack of entrapment and wonder how they would have responded in Williams' place. Others resent the fact that Williams has not resigned. One thing is certain: few Senators will be smiling at the hour of judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Smiles | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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