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...should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome." In fact, Forster had it backward. Dante placed Brutus and Cassius in the ninth circle for the same reason he put Judas there, not because the three sinners were disloyal to friends but rather because they were disloyal to Church and Empire, and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Friends and Countrymen | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

HAPPY END is schizophrenic--an anomalous lark. The biting, sardonic music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Kurt and Bert, Redux | 5/6/1980 | See Source »

...summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late to work if the doors to Adam and Eve's sex palace were already open...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Hot Town, Summer in the City | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

...Caesar Storlazzi, assistant director of financial aid at Yale, said tuition next year will cost $6210, room fees will increase to $1375, and board fees will...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Yale Tuition | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...scriptwriting that sustains Being There is missing from Electric Horseman. Willy Nelson, the singer, has the best line in Electric Horseman. Sunning in a cafe near Caesar's Palace he plans to get "a bottle of tequilla and keno girl who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch." Nelson wrote that himself and the slick script of this Hollywood romance rarely matches the rugged quality of his improvisation. Indeed the film suffers from the same slickness and image-mongering that it purports to criticize...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Against Culture Shlock | 1/4/1980 | See Source »

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