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When he ultimately dies a real death, Gloucester collapses to the stage and remains there, an unmoving corpse, for an hour. Clemenson's endurance is remarkable. Sellars has turned his actors into marathon runners moving--not always smoothly--through their paces. Admirably, he has tried to mesh an Elizabethan notion...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

But Friedkin's unjustifiable massacre of sensibility reels on Ted, Pacino's neighbor, is murdered and while all clues point to Ted's jealous roommate as the culprit, Friedkin knows better. In an ambiguous series of elliptical shots, the director hints that Pacino has butchered Ted in a bizarre exorcism...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Nights in Black Leather | 2/19/1980 | See Source »

Fear succeeds where the Germans do not. One of the myths of battle is that the tempered veteran loses his fear. In Mowat's case, the "Worm That Never Dies" grows stronger with each new holocaust. The change can be read in his progressive perceptions of death. An early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

The Worm That Never Dies had taken him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Winston Churchill is duly eulogized as Britain's savior; but Beaton also observes "his feminine hands with the pointed nails and ringers" and the cracks in his patent-leather shoes. He also records the great man's uncensored political comments. Speaking about the Nazi war criminals, then on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snob's Progress | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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