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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The posters and demonstrations left LACK STAR little doubt that Teng had a popular base of support should he choose to restructure China's leadership by seizing the premiership. When a British journalist asked a group of Peking citizens whom they would vote for as Premier if there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Peking's Poster Politics | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

On East Jerusalem, for example, Washington informed Hussein: "We believe a distinction must be made between Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank because of the city's special status and circumstances. We envisage a negotiated solution for the final status of Jerusalem that could be different in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Hussein's 14 Questions | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, which heads the double bill, is a broad satire of the Antigone vein of Greek tragedy. There are only three characters: Dynamane, a recently widowed noblewoman who has decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: God and Ham at Winthrop | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Presented with such a golden opportunity to go wild, only a troupe of embalmed corpses could fail to entertain, and the Winthrop players rise to the challenge with unabashed enthusiasm. Mike Herrmann as the out-of-work actor Diabetes, and George Melrod as Hepatitis both look uncannily like Groucho Marx...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: God and Ham at Winthrop | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

Pillinger staged this production as a "labor of love," but apparently his fixation upon the sound of the script blinded him to its potential for a spirited treatment. Fry's prose, though too densely written to be believable, is loaded with clever puns which are here denied the emphasis needed...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Air, Water, But Alas, No Fire | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

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