Word: cheevers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cheever Stories, PBS, starting...
Some day PBS's home-grown dramatic programs are going to be the equal of its British imports-but when? After watching public television's adaptation of three John Cheever stories, one is tempted to despair. Here, it seems, PBS had a sure shot. The scripts are by outstanding playwrights: Wendy Wasserstein (Uncommon Women and Others), A.R. Gurney...
...pair. The wife, who discovers that her vacation consists of the same cleaning and cooking that she enjoyed at home, considers swimming to the mainland in the middle of the night, since the ferryboats aren't running. If it is not O'Neill, then it is John Cheever. The creatures who most enjoy themselves may be the 15-year-old girls on the beach who all day squeeze lemon juice on their hair and lazily brush it in to make blond streaks; their faces as they do it are as perfectly empty as certain August afternoons...
...Matarese Circle, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. Good as Gold, Heller (2) 3. Overload, Hailey (3) 4. War and Remembrance, Wouk (4) 5. SS-GB, Deighton (5) 6. Chesapeake, Michener (6) 7. Hanta Yo, Hill (8) 8. The Stories of John Cheever, Cheever (7) 9. Dubin's Lives, Malamud 10. The Associates, Osborn...
...Stories of John Cheever, Cheever...