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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The action takes place during the Thirty Years' War. Mother Courage (Mary Lou Rosato) is an intrepid trader with a sassy tongue and a saucy past. She leeches off the advancing and retreating armies with the goods in her hand-drawn wagon. But her losses bitterly outweigh her profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Intrepid Loser | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

This flabbiness spoils a considerable effort to look clearly at the defeats of old age. A courageous old boarder in Rosa's house simply collapses and dies. Rosa knows that her mind is slipping into senility. The boy Momo, caught in the erratic currents of adolescence, tries to puzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Even an Oscar Would Weep | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Slade is also an accomplished writer of one-liners, which are not only funny but rooted in universal human fears. "When a friend dies, you lose a friend," sighs Scottie, "but when you die, you lose all your friends." There's more in that than just a well-turned phrase...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

In an attempt to escape his loneliness and frustration, Benji turns to drugs. His habit gets progressively worse and little by little his world falls apart: first he starts stealing from his own family, then a friend dies of an overdose and finally, in a moment of abject despair, he...

Author: By Ken Wise, | Title: Heroes Are Hard to Find | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

A musical lives by the book or dies by the book. What Bob Fosse proves in Dancin ' is that regardless of driving energy, exquisite symmetry of motion and flawless execution, a musical bereft of a book is stillborn. Watching Dancin' is like watching the tentacles of an octopus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Corybantic Rites on Broadway | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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