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The playwright would be entertained less by Jenny Cornuelle's ambitious production of his bestknown work, which lacks meaning and plot, though the staging has its merits. Cornuelle's ingenuity shines through her apocalyptic set, an outdoor sandcastle lit by torches. It's clearly not the kind of sandcastle on...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: L' Absurdite, C'est Moi | 5/1/1980 | See Source »

Moore' Christ-like face lends an ironic dimension to J.B.'s suffering. Even blind and mutilated, the victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

Her prose is remarkably untortured, simply but elegantly stated. For her, Robert Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: A Poetry Party | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

In fact, such an apocalyptic outcome seems to be highly unlikely, at least any time soon. But the oil price surge of 1979, which has sent the worldwide cost of crude leaping by more than 100%, to $30 per bbl., is placing unexpected new pressure on international banking and financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Bankers Juggle the Huge Oil Debts | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

The U.S. boycott gives those committees around the world all kinds of apocalyptic visions: the sacred grove in ruins, the Games destroyed as surely as they were in A.D. 393, when the Emperor Theodosius proscribed them. If the Americans and others boycott Moscow, they say, then the Soviets might withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Boycott That Might Rescue the Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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