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These characters and their struggle to emerge intact from their '60s idealism, are the focus of the film, for the plot which frames that struggle is pure cliche. The big, bad conglomerate is just too predictably bull-headed, so intent on lancing any threats to its authority that journalistic quality...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Between Lives | 6/3/1977 | See Source »

The book's protagonist, Gene Barret, (misspelled relation of Oliver?) is an ambulatory cliche. Forced to endure a college education at the insistence of his father, Gene floats from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly...

Author: By Judy Bass, | Title: Sluggish Nonsense | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

Christopher Durang, 28, is a grandchild of the movie age, and his play, A History of the American Film, is a comic memorial to our movie mania. In a little over two hours, Durang recomposes America's entire cinematic history, from Orphans of the Storm to The Exorcist, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Reel Truth, As Time Goes By | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

ALL YOU REALLY NEED to know about this show is summed up in the title, which works like this: capitalize the letters of a word to make them seem like initials; reverse the natural order of syntax in a phrase; don't worry if the meaning gets lost in the...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cranapples | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

Ravenal's script and David Zippel's lyrics litter the biblical myth of creation with the world of cliches that has since accumulated around the lives of men and women. The primeval couple of this musical are jaded about the facts of life before they've even had any practice...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cranapples | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

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