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...ancient decayed organisms. Gold insists that natural gas is an inorganic component of the earth's mantle, as much as 200 miles below ground, and is continually thrust toward the surface by geological and mechanical forces. "When choosing a hypothesis," he says, "there's no virtue in being timid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Theory As Good As Gold | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National Theater, which in 1972 staged an acclaimed revival of The Front Page, are cheering now for Pravda, a coruscating, comic attack on Fleet Street that portrays reporters as timid, trivial and truckling and that describes a newspaper as "the foundry of lies." (The ironic title is Russian for "truth" and also the name of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Savaging the Foundry of Lies Pravda | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Timid roach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Common Cockroach | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...spoke so much about Christ," says Wiesel. "I was timid, but finally I said, 'You speak of Christ's suffering. What about the children who have suffered not 2,000 years ago, but yesterday? And they never talk about it." Mauriac was to recall the look in the speaker's pained eyes, "as of a Lazarus risen from the dead, yet still a prisoner within the grim confines where he had strayed, stumbling among the shameful corpses . . . I could only embrace him weeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Author, Teacher, Witness Holocaust Survivor | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...women in this cast are its real strength. Both exhibit a greater flexibility of character than their male counterparts. Lisa Peers is excellent both as the stern employer of a governess and as the loud-mouthed attacker of Barr. She can play both an ice queen and a timid heart...

Author: By T H. Doyle, | Title: 'Doctored' Chekov Scores a Hit At Cabot | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

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