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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, The Boston Shakespeare Company's production of Two Gentlemen falls headlong into the traps set by the flawed script. If many of Shakespeare's works invite reinterpretation, this one almost demands it. However, director William Lacey opts for a traditional construction of the script, playing much of it merely...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Bad Bard in Boston | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

Supertrain was supposed to be the "Little Engine that Could" for NBC, the series that would pull it out of its midseason lows. But the network tried to do a big, complex show in less than half the time it requires. Producer Dan Curtis, 51, played Casey Jones, but even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

The commission compares this idea to the imposition of fees on corporations which use federal land for grazing, timbering or running ski resorts. An analogy is made to the right to drill for oil off-shore: "What's good for America's oil companies is good for America's commercial...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

Far fewer rental apartments are being built than in the mid-1970s. Rising costs of construction and of operating existing rental units have squeezed landlords. In Chicago, for instance, utility and fuel bills have been rising faster than the Consumer Price Index, while rents have lagged behind it. Says John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Switch to Condos and Co-Ops | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

The glass in The Heartstring is an ordinary glass, the cloud an ordinary cloud; it is their encounter, in that blue, patiently rendered limpidity, that is so arresting. Magritte's best images have more in common with reporting than with fantasy. Would The Human Condition I, one of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enter the Stolid Enchanter | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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