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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that suggests an undercurrent of sexuality. From Shepard to Shakespeare is quite a leap, however; and whereas the looseness provides some fine moments (a giddy Macbeth sprawling pitifully on the ground while plotting Banquo's death), the stylization produces tiresome histrionics (Macbeth: "O! full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife." Macbeth clutches head, presumable to show us scorpions) redolent of countless mediocre productions of Shakespeare. Most of the BSC actors lack the intensity to pull...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Trouble in Scotland | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meet the Real Ronald Reagan | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...occasion? A benefit to revive the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, N. Y., an event that turned into a surprise 80th-birthday party for Local Resident Helen Hayes. Broadway's longtime First Lady bubbled over at the prospect of restoring the old theater where she and such "dear friends" as Jack Benny, Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrice Lillie once played. She was no less pleased with the day's festivities. "This party looks like the 19th century," said the onetime star of Victoria Regina. So, sartorially speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1980 | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...tomorrow." The soundtrack consists of second-rate juke box numbers from the Johnny Rotten timevault, but it is probably the flaunted flesh in Spetters which has made it a box office success. There are masturbations, erections, girl-swappings, older women, and a penis-measuring contest, all apparently dear to international punks...

Author: By Gregory Springer, | Title: Punk Flicks (Old Tricks) | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

Harvard's president, Charles Eliot, returned the compliment. Recounting the early days of the city and the University, he said "We have come to a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking people for generations to come...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: More Talk, Less Fireworks in 1880 | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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