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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberals would obviously prefer a more reliable fifth vote on the council, but with their limited popular base, they will be lucky if Vellucci and four Cambridge Convention '77 candidates win tomorrow. A gregarious character but a political loner, Vellucci has served a unique function in Cambridge politics for liberals...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: An Old-Fashioned Operator | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

THE LOEB PRODUCTION of Marat/Sade brings out most of the play's ambiguities. As Marat, Thomas Myers carefully outlines the transition from the asylum's paranoid to its demagogue, calling from his tub to the mobs of Paris. His is not an easy role: it is difficult to play a...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Political Asylum | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

The potential undoubtedly is there. Roosevelt's presidency hardly lacked the political conflict and turmoil that gives birth to powerful historical drama. His glib tongue seldom strained to reduce the quirks of everyday life to irresistibly quotable witticisms or the sentiments of his countrymen to stirring rhetoric. Schary's script...

Author: By Steve Schorr, | Title: No New Deal | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Diane Keaton plunges into a new area in her line of work--a leading role in a serious drama about a nympho working girl--and she can look back on the departure with satisfaction. Her masochistic Theresa Dunn rivals Keaton's technical excellence in portraying Annie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's A Hitch At Quincy | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's A Hitch At Quincy | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

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