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...more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel, but he can still grin at the bared fangs of his own beasts. He has not become a beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...high window ledges. Elevated runways line the library's walls, and these serve not only as entrances and exits for the dancers and chorus, but also as extensions of the stage proper. When the singers line either of these runways and belt out "Golden Tears" or "Beauty and the Beast" the effect is almost stereophonic...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Bowie Worship | 4/23/1982 | See Source »

...companions in heaven are Siegfried von Kanigswald (Mark Kingstone), "the beast of Yugoslavia" whom Ryan killed on one of his missions; and Mildred Ryan (Dina Michels), a former wife of Ryan who has turned to alchol and cynicism. In various monologues the two characters cut apart Harold Ryan for his curelty selfishness and sexual abnormalities. Both actors do the best that could be expected with their parts especially Michels who saunters on drunkenly and then saunters...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heroes for Zeroes | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...chase had a beast in view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Impersonal Best: On to Utopia | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay or Autun to their didactic grotesqueries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Finale for the Fantastical | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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