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On any other night, a Pudding show has no trouble catching attention. But opening night is a production unto itself, and even when the drag queens hit the stage you can't help but wonder if the real action isn't happening somewhere in your peripheral vision. Surely there was...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Taking in a Show--Or Two | 2/20/1985 | See Source »

Among his most pressing tasks when he returns home: preparing for a two-week meeting, starting next November, of Roman Catholic bishops. The extraordinary synod will convene to examine the work of the Second Vatican Council, which made sweeping changes in church life. The mandate of the synod, says a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Si to a Demanding Friend | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Glitz departs from the usual tense stalker plot in a number of ways. Teddy's incidental murders are described with a casualness that underscores his sickening emotional vacuum. For some doubtful reason, Mora treats Magyk's threat nonchalantly even though he acknowledges that psychopaths are unpredictable and extremely dangerous. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleaze Factors Glitz by Elmore Leonard | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Miss Manners would approve of this creature from outer space: before invading earth, he waited to be invited. He is the first extraterrestrial to visit our planet in response to a summons from the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which since 1977 has careered through the heavens carrying recorded greetings in 55...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lover from Another Planet | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

But sometimes the riled imagination can yield convincing ghosts. Says Marguerite Young, poet and author of the dreamlike novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling: "I see Emily Dickinson quite often, Virginia Woolf, and Dickens. Poe ... oh, all the time, I see him on misty nights at Sheridan Square when the raindrops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet, Please, Writers Talking | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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