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Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: It's Better on Television | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

The Games had an even more remarkable dimension: they worked, and worked almost flawlessly. That is not the way they were supposed to go. The Soviets and more than a dozen Communist countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Working with standard Leicas and a new wide-angle camera called the Technorama, Ruetz records the country from his fresh, often idiosyncratic viewpoint. An aerial shot, intentionally, shows as much of the helicopter he is in as the Grand Canyon below. He gives a slightly mordant dimension to the panorama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

So the Stepford Carl, once activated, will speak. And then the caller will speak, and the caller's words will likewise be frozen in time, and both of those small ancillary selves will lie side by side for a little while in their other dimension. Words can be chilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: At the Sound of the Beep... | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

The move by the union came after a late night bargaining session with the school committee where teachers rejected a proposal. Union negotiators contend that the school committee added a new dimension to negotiations by proposing a decrease in health benefits.

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: City Teachers Refuse Work | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

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