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Good Time Charley. I suppose it was only a matter of time. The idea was obvious, the time so ripe, that my only question is, "what took so long?" A musical about Joan of Arc. It only took the Church 500 years to canonize her. Better late than never, is one tempted to explain? It won't do. Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing...
...Mother, by Bertold Brecht, someone who really knew how to handle Joan of Arc on stage. At the Charles St. Meeting House...
...ever-present outdoor tables and chairs of the sidewalk cafes. Even the awnings had been furled into safe tight rolls. And then the stage was readied: megaphones and loudspeakers were set up, political banners strung, and huge powerful arc lights borrowed from movie studios were brought out to illuminate the scene for television...
Even some of the President's supporters worry that he is devoting more energy to matters of style-such as reviewing Armistice Day troops at the Arc de Triomphe on foot rather than by car, and approving a more solemn version of La Marseillaise (TIME, Nov. 18) -than to problems of substance. In fact, Giscard's "relaxed" presidency has produced some creative reforms in non-economic areas. Last week, for example, his Cabinet approved a new liberal abortion law, votes for 18-year-olds and an end to wiretapping...
Three prints--which Goya titles simply, "No Quieren" (They Don't Want To), "Tampoco" (Nor Those), and "Ni Por Esas" (Neither Do These)--show the brutality with which the victorious French raped the Spanish women. Figures in the shadows only hint at the viciousness, but an arc of Goya's light illuminates a half-naked woman being dragged by a French soldier away from the body of her screaming child...