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...place, Reagan appointed Edward Noble, an Oklahoma oilman who is skeptical about synfuels. Says Noble: "I have come to run a very hard-nosed, responsible operation that will require a lot from the private sector. I am not going to shoot the mule that has drawn the wagon, but I'm not going to spread a lot of hay in every direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Setbacks for Synfuels | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Madame Bovary. Emma, a young Frenchwoman, finds contentment in marriage and work with the Welcome Wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There Must Be a Nicer Way | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...solves one thorny problem by reordering the dramatist's text. He builds up lots of audience sympathy for the servant-boy (most winningly played, in both English and French, by 13-year-old Peter James), and then has a Frenchman wantonly stab the lad to death atop a supply wagon, which moves offstage. Then Henry enters with the boy's corpse in his arms, and says. 'I was not angry since I came to France/Until this instant'--whereupon he orders his men to kill their prisoners, which occurs earlier in the text. All of this makes the king's most...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

...addition to wagon congestion on market day, there was one other overriding problem, and that was dragons. Predictably merciless when they terrorized a village--as was their occasional wont--dragons became much more unpleasant when pestered by heroes with long spears. One such confrontation is depicted in Matthew Robbins' Dragonslayer, the story of a kid who wears burlap clothing but makes good anyway...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Puff the Magic | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

...hours near the bridge. He was in the area, he later explained, to use a telephone and had stopped momentarily to check the address and phone number of a woman he was planning to audition as part of his talent business. Given permission to search his 1974 Plymouth station wagon, officers found a four-band, two-way radio. Williams, an electronics and short-wave radio buff, had been arrested (but not convicted) in 1976 for impersonating a police officer, having equipped his car with red lights beneath the front grille. This time nothing was confiscated, and Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, at Least a Suspect | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

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