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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current Rosalind is the much-honored Eileen Atkins, making her AST debut. Mis Atkins is no stranger to the part, having played it (in bluejeans) back home with the Royal Shakespeare Company three years ago. She is still young enough for the role, though she is not so pretty as one would like. Her angular face is no insuperable drawback, however, since she spends most of the play disguised as a curly-headed Ganymede in a riding outfit...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'As You Like It' in a Forest Without Green | 8/6/1976 | See Source »

...emperor and the political intrigues one must initiate to remain one. In 1975 it was voted as the best science fiction novel of all time by the readers of Locust, a New York City-based "fanzine," ahead of classics like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It is good popular fiction; by which I mean it rates with the best of Eric Ambler...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Dune and Out | 8/6/1976 | See Source »

...Stranger in the Mirror, Sheldon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...last week the Palestinian situation had become desperate: in one of the stranger turns in the course of the struggle, Moslem Syria's forces were on the side of the Lebanese Christians. The Syrians had moved into Lebanon originally to stop the fighting before either side lost. But the Syrian troops trying to contain the Christian-Moslem fighting were provoked into combat by Palestinians fighting alongside the Lebanese Moslems. Damascus' answer has been to increase its commitment in Lebanon still more, to 15,000 men who control most of the rich Bekaa Valley. The Syrians have also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Carving Out a Christian Canton | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Most of it occurs in Haiti, where Edward hopes to make them "best friends" again after Amy has an affair with her libertine half sister Blanche. A mysterious stranger appears and reappears. Amy begins to act strange, as if she possesses some important secret. Edward begins to spot possible hints of new infidelity everywhere-in a faint whiff of cigarette smoke, a footprint, a random passage from a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

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