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A rake of renown, Plume stirs the love of Silvia (Laurie Kennedy), who disguises herself in male uniform and eventually hooks him. Plume's best friend, Mr. Worthy (Frank Maraden), is led a mad matrimonial chase by a haughty heiress named Melinda, played in an impish comic vein by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rake's Reform THE RECRUITING OFFICER | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (PBS, Jan 26, 8 p.m., E.S.T.) It is a bad sign when a producer feels he must apologize for Shakespeare, but that is precisely what Jonathan Miller does at the beginning of this play, the 13th in the BBC's Shakespeare series. The Taming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midwinter Night's Dreams | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

"Over and over we are supporting governments that we shouldn't," Stanley Cavell, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, and one of the petition's signers, said yesterday. The petition is a "worthy caution" to the new administration that our relations with Latin America are in...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Professors Ask U.S. to Stop Latin American Military Aid | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

There are people who are disgruntled about the arrangements. Some are upset by the price (it would cost a minimum of $2,000 to buy tickets to all the events); a few Congressmen are ruffled by a "suggestion" that they too wear morning suits at the swearing-in. Jimmy Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An $8 Million Shindig | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

-the gust of primitive certitude blowing in from the right. The grudgingly delighted little rediscoveries of marriage and other products of anamnesis seem part of a new American talent for throwing open the door to the worthy and obvious, to a solid modest vista of common sense or even virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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