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Readers who try to decipher her fullpage, many-framed scratchings may think she has a point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Slicing the Baloney with Style | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

IN A PREFACE to his play Caligula, Albert Camus confessed that he was amazed when French critics spoke of it as a philosophical play. "I look in vain for philosophy in these four acts," Camus writes. "If it exists it stands on the level of this assertion by the hero...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Tripping Through Tragedy | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Quite apart from the unusual step of a press secretary correcting his President, Powell's answer only further confused matters for anyone who has tried to decipher the White House's smoke signals on the economy. Last week Powell again tried. Powell said he had meant that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Editing Jimmy | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

The rest of the production, though, is quite professional. Louise Newman's costumes, if not sumptuous, are certainly eye-catching, and Ferric Fang's orchestra does justice to the bouncy music. Best of all, the set (designed by Robert Grossman, with hilarious graphic designs by Lee Bearson and Tom Gammill...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Say It With Music | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

The group does sing exclusively in Russian, but those who heard them in the aftermath of Harvard's victorious day on the football field last year in New Haven, can attest to the vibrancy and sincerity which they derive from the foreign tongue and tunes in their musical offerings. Anyway...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Heavy On The Russian | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

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