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Word: casted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mounting national suspicions of the Soviets and the sense that we are losing our leadership position have cast a long shadow over the final outcome of SALT II. It may be, Warnke muses, as critical a time in our national life as we have faced since the end of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: On Trusting the Soviets | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Once in Paris might have been a tolerably good romantic farce with this cast, but Gilroy's dialogue is not very funny, and character development depends entirely on the acting and camera work since the script does not offer any. We learn nothing of the Hunnicutt character, for instance, except that she is sophisticated and looks fine in percale. And although the errant husband played by Rogers telephones hearty lies back to America each evening, nothing is established about his betrayed wife. Is she dull, interesting, ugly, beautiful, loyal, faithless, a drudge, a scholar, a rock guitarist? To know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fizzled Farce | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Plays about historical figures rarely cast new light upon the figures or ourselves. Bernard Pomerance, an American living in London, has written a drama about a historical freak that movingly does both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Freak No More | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...major theme, it is the implications of artificial intelligence. What is natural and unnatural, what is imaginary and what is real-and does it really matter-are questions that stream through the pages of A Perfect Vacuum like ghostly neutrinos. Each story is cast in the form of a review of a nonexistent book. Lem, of course, is both reviewer and conceiver of the unwritten texts. Some are fairly straightforward social and literary satires. Les Robinsonades dismisses Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a puritanized fiction based on a brutish factual account of a castaway (which it was), and presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...rest of the cast is no less worthy--only less visible. Worthiness is also the theme 23-year-old producer Frederico DeLaurentiis follows in his credits--the costume designer receives as much due as the producer...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Be My Gypsy | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

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