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...life and work of Lillian Hellman, you might be inclined to think that her play Another Part of the Forest, which is playing at the Loeb tonight through Saturday, lacks the ring of truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table or that each incident in the plot...
Three months ago, Amin announced that Hills, 61, a resident of Uganda since 1964 and a lecturer at a teachers' training college until 1973, had been arrested for "spying" and for writing, in an unpublished manuscript, that Big Daddy ruled in the manner of a "village tyrant." A civil court threw out the case against Hills, who is suffering from terminal cancer. Nonetheless, a secret military tribunal quickly found him guilty of treason. Yet even before the kangaroo-court tribunal had reached its verdict, Amin was offering to trade Hills' life for some concessions from the British government...
...would be put in rather rare historical company. Although killing rulers and leaders is a human practice that sometimes seems commonplace, it has usually been the work of individual fanatics, rival factions within a nation, insurrectionists, nationalists seeking to throw off external government, or citizens moved to eliminate a tyrant. Seldom have governments set out to kill the principals of other governments as a matter of cool policy, even with the bloodiest provocation...
...Motors, thus weaning the West away from its petroleum habit. When all seems lost, one of the bad Arabs reveals himself to be a good Arab, determined to make peace with Israel and save the GM third-quarter profits. Some of the figures in this fantasy-notably an ancient tyrant in French Intelligence-are worth a smile...
Like Sergei Eisenstein's film classic-the score is based largely on Prokofiev's music for that movie-the ballet is an episodic, ponderously romanticized narrative about Czar Ivan IV. A madman and a tyrant, Ivan fought the feudal boyar nobles as well as invading enemies and managed to unite Russia during the 16th century. There are scenes evoking his struggle with the nobles, lyrical moments of happiness with his first wife, Anastasia, plotting by the boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar...