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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will clearly suffice. Other good points include the clever set, which makes use of some unusual and effective ramps, and brilliant lighting. Still, there are too many meaningless moments and hackneyed dramatic devices in Failing, the winner of last year's Phyllis Anderson Prize for Harvard student playwriting, to allow an ecstatic reaction. There are several excellent scenes, however, and Gallo's potential is evident. Even if the show is somewhat baffling, it is good to see a real student production at the Loeb...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: Failing to Compel | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

When Pomme breaks up with Francois, the mood shifts. Having stressed her childlike vulnerability, Goretta has no way to work out an ending that will allow Pomme to survive. The logical solution would have Pomme go her own way, a little wiser and stronger--but then her innocence would be lost. Instead, Goretta chooses to preserve that innocence in a sanitarium. Our last view of Pomme shows her staring into the camera with the look of a child who has been hurt deeply--too deeply to ever forget...

Author: By Tim Noah, | Title: An Ode to Innocence | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

That spirit went only as far as the realities of politics in the Democratic party would allow it. Edwards' contribution was, nonetheless, a formidable one, and she records it faithfully...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Passage For India | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

LAST AUGUST, President Carter delivered a message to Congress suggesting several ways of revising immigration policy. His most dramatic proposal would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who had lived in the United States for seven years or longer and allow them to live, work and bring their families here; those who had lived here less than seven years, but had arrived prior to January 1, 1977 would be permitted to retain their jobs, though they would be denied most social services and the privilege of bringing their families here...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Invisible Borders, Visible Problems | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged philosophical models into the sparkling confines of his ficciones and become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Metaphysics and Machismo | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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