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...quiet as a Sunday-school teacher's lesson, is over. The storyteller, in the fullness of his craft, has struck, and the spell is on, as surely as it was when Homer conjured up a fleet of ships on a wine-dark sea bound for the walls of Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Storytellers Cast Their Ancient Spell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...couponing," says Betty Buckley, a Marietta, Ga., housewife with eight children who estimates that she saves $2,000 a year with coupons and refunds. When groups of friends gather for "swap meetings," she says, "you can be sure you all have something in common-inflation." Mary Janoyan, 33, a Troy, Mich., housewife, boasts of saving an average of $200 a month on her household budget. Says she: "If couponing and refunding were stopped tomorrow, I'd have to go some place for my withdrawal symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Snipping Away at Inflation | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...manners into a fast-paced social commentary, demanding consistent and sincere performances from his cast. He controls the humor and tone of the play with a light hand, never letting the performances lapse into schtick or inappropriate vaudeville. The set, by Constantine Antoniades, and the costumes, by Anne Troy, integrate naturally into the light tone of the production...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: The Butler Does It--Well | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

...Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Season of the Nightsoaps | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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