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...there is no plexiglass mounted around the top of the boards. Instead, the fans are protected by chain link fence, which is nearly impossible to see through. Before the game I felt like I was at the zoo, waiting for the polar bears to come out and perform. After watching the Dartmouth fans, I think I was at the zoo...
Born. To James Taylor, 25 (TIME cover, March 1,1971), melancholic folk-blues singer (Fire and Rain, Knocking 'Round the Zoo), and Carly Simon, 29, gutsy singer-composer (Anticipation, You're So Vain) and daughter of the publishing Simon (& Schuster): a daughter, Sarah Maria; in New York City...
...Section 18 zoo...
...even attempted essays in mysticism (The Old Men at the Zoo). As If By Magic is a little of all of these, but curiously - Wilson, after all, is now 60 - it reads more like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter...
...Rabe has more gravity and force than that, as he has shown in his Viet Nam plays, Sticks and Bones and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. He has a wildly exhilarating, surrealistic humor that has not been exhibited in the U.S. theater since Edward Albee wrote The Sandbox, Zoo Story and An American Dream. He has a painful awareness of familial alienation, a kind of psychic wound that will not heal. His last play, a disaster, was significantly titled The Orphan. Finally there is a sense of vocation about the man, that sturdy-ox effort and noble seriousness that...