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The scenario may be a cliche by now but it is still tact--as documented clearly movingly and with a new immediacy in Charlie Company What Vietnam Did to Us. Three years ago Newsweek reporters Peter Gockman and Tony Fuller sought out surviving members of the "gook-hunting, dirt-eating...

Author: By Michael J. Abeamowitz, | Title: That Dirty Little War | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

Two of the one-act plays brazened through the cliche barrier to make provocative comments on the battle between artistic integrity and professional survival. In Kent Broadhurst's lovely The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, a Manhattan gallery owner (Frederic Major) instructs a brilliant, unknown painter (John C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rising Above the Murmur | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

It got around. Before long, writers of every stripe, from Dorothy Parker to Clifford Odets, had discovered this fantastic new way to waste their gifts and souls. That, at least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Touring Cloud-Cuckoo-Land | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

THE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR who writes poetry on the side has become something of a cliche in academic circles. Invariably he knows most of the other poets in the area because he has attended so many readings. Writing is a joy and a curse for him--he feels best when he...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Eye-Opener | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

It is only March, but already there is a leading candidate for 1983's Six Weeks award: a brass teardrop given to the most maudlin picture of the year. But then, Table for Five perhaps has an unfair advantage. It was written by David Seltzer, who did the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 7, 1983 | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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