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Kevin "The Villain" Skelly and Maria Pe won a tough three-set victory over Boston University to take first place in the "B" division of the Greater Boston Mixed Doubles Championships yesterday...
...villain, he's a romantic hero. And Larry Hagman is the new Clark Gable, with that same mixture of sex, charm and cruelty, the same devilish grin-and the same sweeping broad-brimmed...
Even Even before before reporting reporting began for this week's cover story on television's whodunit hit Dallas, two TIME staff members knew the show intimately. Correspondent James Willwerth prepared for his interviews with Dallas producers, writers and actors - including Larry Hagman, who plays Star Villain J.R. Ewing - by sitting through hours of screenings. "I attempted to list which of the seven deadly sins, Ten Commandments and miscellaneous Freudian nightmares were depicted," says Will werth, "but I bogged down after anger, envy, lust, avarice, adultery, coveting thy neighbor's wife and worshiping false idols." Associate Editor...
...near death or trouble themselves to ponder the assailant's identity. If the scheming scion of Ewing Oil were not surrounded by a nest of relatives, all pursuing their venal and venereal desires through a plot delirious in its complexity, he would be perceived as a cartoon villain among prime time's standard retinue of sanctified simps. If Dallas did not offer the rarest of series commodities-narrative surprise and character change -the attempt on J.R.'s life would be no more than a gimmick, instead of the logical climax to a season of devilish intrigue...
...between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring a villain or a political puritan who, "once having given his loyalty ... did not withdraw it"? As for the agnostic Clemens, Farmer writes: "Sometimes, he thought that his belief in determinism was only an excuse to escape his guilt about certain matters. If this were true, then he was exercising free will...