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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other two shows also flatten Cheever's subtleties into middle-brow platitudes. In O Youth and Beauty!, Michael Murphy plays a onetime Princeton track star, now a bank executive, who vexes his wife (Kathryn Walker) by jumping over furniture at cocktail parties. Not content to let this conceit speak for it self, Playwright Gurney supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lost Souls | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson Arts Weekly was not only disappointing in its content, it was also offensive. For lack of news, the Crimson resorted to advertisement through sex to make articles appealing. The cover displays Hugh Hefner surrounded by several Playboy bunnies; the titles of the top stories run: "The Habit of Balling," "James Bond Reduced to a Prissy Liberalism," and "Hot Damn: Texas Has a Whorehouse." The cover and titles are catchy for their aggressive male sexual connotation. The Crimson seems to believe that it can disregard its female readership with impunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Appeal | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...protagonist. The trouble stems from Fassbinder's belief that Maria can serve as a damning metaphor for modern Germany's Economic Miracle. Since his style expresses complex emotions and ambiguous political history in broad theatrical gestures, he never makes his case. Eventually the strain between form and content becomes irritating. The final shot is a portrait of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who is thus equated with the film's opening image of Hitler. No sale. If Fassbinder wants to take such dangerous stands, he will have to abandon his facile mannerisms and arm himself with the most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High Camp | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...news, as such, being a bi-monthly, but we can offer an alternative radical analysis of current issues," Mary Jo Connolly '81, a member of the paper's editorial collective said yesterday. The editorial collective is responsible for the newspaper's content and production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergrads Publish 'Agenda' With Progressive Viewpoint | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...secret of Harvard's strength may have been revealed at the beginning of the second half when the B.U. team came out strong after having borrowed two water bottles from Crimson manager Maura Costin during halftime. While the content of the bottles remains in question, the Terriers undoubtedly were recharged. Donna Drews dug the ball out of a tangle in front of the net and sailed it over Crimson goalie Barb Mahon's outstretched arms...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: St. Louis Gets Hat Trick As Women Booters Roll; Terriers Bow Wow, 7-2 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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