Word: talese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One typical shift last week moved the Washington bureau's Strobe Talbott, 30, who translated the Khrushchev memoirs, out into the Reagan campaign. Said Talbott: "I picked up the Reagan road show on Sunday in Indianapolis, and since then I've visited 14 cities and towns in four...
Murdered Critic. Nicholas Meyer's first literary "discovery"-an unpublished memoir by Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Dr. Watson-pleased almost everyone. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution happily accounted for Holmes' whereabouts after he was supposedly drowned in the Reichenbach Falls. He was, of course, breaking his cocaine habit...
"I would much rather have written the best song of a nation than its noblest epic." So said Edgar Allan Poe, the 19th century American poet, teller of horror tales and inventor of the detective story. A vulnerable sort, tormented by melancholy and eventually by drink, he was infatuated with...
"Hand of Fate" resurrects a favorite theme. Always fond of Southern tales, in this version Jagger adopts the persona of a southern man "on the run 'cause (he) killed a man" and in narrative style informs us of the details. Jagger's voice is sometimes disturbing as he descends below...
The two actors who play the dictators are more impressive. Alexander Wells, as the three-headed dragon, changes his character slightly each time he changes faces. First as a self-satisfied military officer, then as cowardly tyrant, and finally as a simpering, giggling despot who knows he has crippled the...