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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of Evita's failings are a function of Rice's libretto, which never aspires to much more than a comic-book version of history. The author dutifully chronicles Evita's impoverished youth, her Buenos Aires radio career and her rise to power once married to Colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eva Peron, Superstar | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

The play lives or dies with the lead characters: Red Ryder, a young man trapped in a small town in New Mexico who puts on a James Dean, grease-and-tattoos front of tough independence to hide his inability to break free of his oppressive life; Teddy, a disaffected, belligerant...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: An American Nightmare | 8/18/1978 | See Source »

Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Young Blood | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

This week fortune is ready to smile on Beatty yet another time. Heaven Can Wait, his new film, opens at 625 theaters nationwide and is almost sure to be the most popular entertainment of the summer. A remake of a classic Hollywood comedy called Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Beatty Strikes Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Aaron Greidinger, the hero and narrator, recapitulates the careers of other Singer characters and, in many small details, that of Singer himself. Growing up in Warsaw in the early years of this century, Aaron slowly disentangles himself from the strictures and teachings of his rabbi father and becomes attracted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Song of the Polish Past | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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