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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Love that is largely unexpressed, and the fear of losing it, dominates the lives of most Brennan characters. All of them, whether they survive in shabby Dublin gentility, bask in fashionable East Hampton, or simply hang on by their fingernails in New York City, live in a world of secret thoughts and elaborate private rituals that they cannot share. Brennan has always specialized in the involuntary victims of such isolation-children and animals. She has even written successfully about a large Labrador retriever named Bluebell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moments of Recognition | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Even nongolfers, that quietly bitter minority group, stretch and bask, albeit sheepishly, in the Wodehouse prose. In self-justification they cite his storytelling powers. Faced with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clubmen at Play | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...paid well ($1.70 an hour to start, lO? above the federal minimum wage) and provided a clean, bright, air-conditioned factory. On the other side, the Amalgamated was eager to organize Farah Manufacturing as an opening wedge to crack the dozens of clothing manufacturers in the Southwest that bask in a non-union atmosphere. Union organizers were able to capitalize on a genuine labor grievance. Farah's mostly Mexican-American workers complained that they were held to unreasonable production quotas that often forced them to cut short their lunch hours and skip rest-room breaks. The battle was joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Farah Knuckles Under | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...accusing finger has to be pointed at the three producers, who brought the show here after a commercial success Off-Broadway in New York, and the five authors, who wasted good paper and ink writing it. There is no need to list their names. Hopefully they will continue to bask in the obscurity they now enjoy...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Coke Gone Flat | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...satire of Up the Sandbox is cozy and gloating. Women who bask in their husbands' success-indeed, live largely for it-are pitied. Any women who might object to having their husbands' lives forever take precedence are scorned as sour neurotics with sexual identity problems. Sandbox continually skirts more serious issues by smugly dwelling on such trivialities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pallid Revolution | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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