Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swedish director, whose film The Seventh Seal has become the classic portrait of plague-stricken medieval Europe, would probably be surprised to see a play that finds humor where he found existential gloom. And he might be shocked to see mortals play games with Death...
Peter Barnes' Noses offers a perspective on human misery almost antithetical to that of the dark and despairing Seventh Seal. Barnes interprets the expression "black humor" literally, making it the basis for an inquiry into the comic aspects of a death-obsessed...
...races which Democratic challengers should win are in Nebraska and Nevada. Sen. David K. Karnes (R-Neb.) who was appointed to the post following the death of Sen. Edward Zorinski, is trailing popular former Gov. Robert Kerrey by a significant margin. And Sen. Chic Hecht (R-Nev.), who was voted one of the least effective senators by Washingtonian magazine, and was considered a re-election long-shot from the start, will probably fall to Democratic Gov. Dick Bryan in a close race...
...Salaam Bombay!, ten-year-old Krishna (Shafiq Syed) has no hope higher than survival. His mother has thrown him out, and he must earn 500 rupees in the churning Bombay slums. Is this a death sentence? No, it is a challenge for the resourceful Krishna. Does the film curtsy to liberal pieties? No, it sees the city as a school for life -- life as it is for millions of Asian children. His neighbors may be prostitutes and pushers, but they are neither fiends nor Artful Dodgers; they are individuals come to bracing anecdotal life. And Bombay may not be paradise...
...Death of a Salesman...