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To personify Richard's weakness, Ian Richardson plays the King as a kind of drag queen. This is disastrous. The epicene approach robs the audience of the pity it should feel for Richard's painful self-knowledge in adversity, and mutes his ringing defense of the divine prerogatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toppled King/Torn Mind | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

Isfahan's artistic flowering began with the reign of the energetic Shah Abbas I, who made it his capital. As Anthony Welch explains in his excellent catalogue, Shah Abbas transformed the traditional Persian arts, previously the province of a tiny, cultivated elite, into a more widely based, commercially successful venture...

Author: By Mary Scott, | Title: Art of the Mirage | 1/25/1974 | See Source »

Martin gave Miami a fourth point because "the Dolphins' greatest offensive strength, their running game, is aimed at Minnesota's defensive weakness: the running defense." Though other experts might argue that Minnesota's defense has no weakness, Martin concludes: "Miami's game is to control the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Betting Bowl | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

One of the restrictions of a previous Massachusetts bill requires prisoners to serve two-thirds of their sentences before becoming eligible for the new reforms. Walpole is a maximum security prison, containing the most reactionary guards in Massachusetts and a large majority of prisoners serving long sentences who are not...

Author: By Jane B. Baird, | Title: The Prison Industry | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

WILL SAYING: Every time there is a big conference they always have a war to go with it. If he [Warren G. Harding] had a weakness, it was in trusting his friends, and the man that don't do that, then there is something the matter with him. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Kidder | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

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