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...Corporation also will meet tomorrow and may continue discussions on Brustein's appointment, Bur said. "I sort of assumed we had made an official sort of assumed we had made an official decision [at the November Corporation meeting], but now I really don't know," he added...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Board of Overseers Convenes, Defers Decision on Brustein | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...entire cast works with will and skill, and Patricia Elliott is particularly winning as a perky lady's maid with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Snaky Spell | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...Bur perhaps the biggest surprise came last week, when the jury found all three of the defendants guilty of first-degree murder, as charged...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Verdict Comes In | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

...Dies, the narrator tries to arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which he writes it, and his life will all end at the same moment. It is hard to believe that Beckett will stop writing until he has to. He has made that bur den, after all, his despair and triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words of the Bard of the Bitter End | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...only things we do know in Barry Lyndon are told us by the narrator. The narrator has no personality. His presence is obstrusive--sometimes only his comments make sense out of a scene, and his voice has the all-knowing tone of the unctuous omniscient author. Bur he doesn't offer omniscience--only a combination of the tritest of truisms ("A young man's heart is...") and the most basic information ("A year later they were married.") The voice is Michael Hordern's and he sounds a lot like the late Edward Everett Horton narrating Fractured Fairy Tales early Saturday...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The Titanic Sailed at Dawn | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

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