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...also played on "The Wheel of Fortune" game show two years ago, though less successfully. He added that he can only play on one more game show before he reaches the legal limit...

Author: By Jonathan N. Brachman, | Title: Law Student Awes Classmates On 'Sale of the Century' Show | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...play's final image, Beatrice being tortured on a giant wheel to atone for her father's murder, amidst a clutter of bicycle wheels and tractor tires, lives up to the spirit set in the earlier scenes. Director McCreery, who expressed some concern that audiences might see the play merely as an exercise in ridiculousness, need not worry. Artaud wrote occasionally about the similarity between all strong emotional reactions, and he would certainly understand the thin line between dark laughter and somber rapture. The Mather House production spans the line with ease. At the very least, The Cenci...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Delightfully Absurd | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

Small groups of Toyota desert vehicles, with 106-mm recoilless rifles mounted at the rear, wheel and charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara. Outriders hang from the sides, firing their AK-47s with deadly grace. Very young and therefore very brave, the men of these small fighting units, or escadrons, whip their Toyotas' flanks until the vehicles seem to snort and froth at the bit like fine-blood Arab stallions. The young soldiers move silently, without war cries except for the high-pitched scream of their engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Great Toyota War | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...Angels wheel and deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...wheel has turned. Caught in a squeeze between overproduction of heroin and eroding markets overseas, Asians are now selling to Asians, with devastating effect. Though official statistics do not exist, the worst estimates suggest that Thailand alone may have more addicts than the U.S. Nowhere has the scourge spread more swiftly than in Pakistan, where the number of heroin users has exploded from virtually none before 1980 to an estimated 200,000 by the end of last year. Malaysian police report that as much as 70% of all crime in the nation is now related to drugs. More than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Let Them Shoot Smack | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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