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...play begins innocently enough: on a sleepy day in Bug River, a respectably-dressed stranger, William Hard, visits a mother, Dora, and daughter, Susannah, to deliver a message about their father, the amiably named Ray. The mystery of the stranger and the contents of the letter, however, gradually give rise to a series of colorfully existentialist and epistemological revelations, odd cultic rituals involving trousers and the moon, and a great deal of hemming and hawing over both. One could describe the plot--basically, Ray is actually a duplicate husband, mildly deviant, that William Hard must replace...
...here we were for one more try, in the visitors' tank at the federal pen in San Diego, waiting for the stone-faced warden to decide whether or not to allow our visit. I was no stranger to pulling time, but mine was six months at a work camp in the redwoods. While we cooled our heels, I could only imagine Tim's predicament: a middle-aged West Point alum and discredited Harvard instructor serving a sentence in this skyless scene. No wonder he let the Weathermen talk him into that swashbuckling escape the year before from San Luis Obispo...
...state papers), books in Spanish and German (usually borrowed from other libraries), issues of Scientific American and Omni. Once a month or so, he would visit the grocery store and load staples into his backpack: Spam and canned tuna and flour. He was strange, the townspeople said, but no stranger than others who had come to hide at the end of the world...
Varmus is no stranger to Harvard, having received an M.A. in English literature in 1962 from the University, after earning a B.A. in English literature at Amherst College in 1961. After his stint at Harvard, he went to Columbia University...
...Currier House junior who is no stranger to the camera debuted as the star of her own cable television show last night...