Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just now, Travolta holds the winning hand; or most of it, anyhow. There is no wild card. No overheated tales of profligacy and indulgence. No seamy revelations. The usual insinuations, to be sure, but no backstairs gossip that is verifiable, no sagas of ruinous excess and careening self-destruction. Superstars...
Weltha, 49, is a bearded former music teacher who joined the Iowa State faculty twelve years ago, likes to bicycle to class, and eats health food at his desk for lunch. In 1970 he began dabbling in parapsychology and attended lectures and seminars on the subject. Soon he was bringing...
Irish writers are silkworms in spinning words. They have an abiding sense of the past and have never really lost the oral tradition that makes them grand tellers of tales. The psychology of their land is that of loss, but the loss is borne with salty wit and exuberantly wild...
Perhaps they reminded the author of his own emotional and cultural wrenchings. Wilson seems to think so. He writes that "even when they appear most impersonal, his political and imperial concepts spring from his own agonising sense of personal isolation." When Baa, Baa, Black Sheep first appeared in 1888, readers...
RATHER THAN A PLAY primarily about power, this play focuses more on relationships--and the interweaving of power, love and betrayal. Lipsky's philosophizing at the play's end about Israel's decline from Moses's cooperative tribal government to the power politics infecting David and Saul falls flat, perhaps...