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So if the congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: A Habit Worth Breaking | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Just as the Cubist painters redirected attention away from the representational content of a painting and concentrated it upon the surface of the canvas as a flat plane, so Facade, by reducing words to a musical unintelligibility, explores the surface texture--the facade--of sound. With passages read at break...

Author: By Ta-knang Chang, | Title: A Play On Words | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

There may be a mystical streak in this young playwright, but the stage is mighty barren soil for mysticism. He is certainly haunted by the long scorching annals of the Jewish experience, to which Ribman ascribes survival with suffering in a mixture too complex for revelation. His social canvas is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Ferrying on the Styx | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

"Prez," as Jones is affectionately known by staff and students alike, is jovial and easygoing-given, as he says, to "talking up a breeze." A storyteller in the Southern tradition, he splashes his tales with emphatic "Oh, Lord's" and resounding laughs. As he drives around his 380-acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prez' Talks Up a Breeze | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Each canvas is divided vertically into two unequal parts, and the paint builds up and bubbles along the uneven line where the two parts converge. The subtle blends and shifts in color are interesting, but the works are neither exciting nor disturbing.

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: High Voltage, Do Not Touch | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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