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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with utter conviction...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Earnestness Without Style; 'I Speak, Therefore I Am' | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

With selections drawn from fairly regular intervals over these years, this book uncovers Beckett's development from a crisp but somewhat pedantic short-fiction writer ("Dante and the Lobster"), through his experimentation with the novel form (large sections of Molloy and The Unnamable), and finally into the most popularly successful phase of his art, drama (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape...

Author: By Tom Keffner, | Title: Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

This divisiveness gave an early lead to Democrat Dennis DeConcini, a former district attorney from the Tucson area. DeConcini has drawn fire from Steiger for his stance in favor of the decriminalization of marijunan, but the Democrat has employed his work as a prosecutor as a countervalent to charges of "liberalism...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: From Sea to Shining Sea: Races for Congress and The Governor's Mansion | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

Outstanding scientists from numerous countries have significantly added to American creativity. Countless trained technologists continue to be drawn from many parts of the world, advanced as well as developing. Their contribution, no less than the native obsession with short-term results, has enhanced America's power and selfesteem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Message to American from India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...doing turnaway business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about being black and female that is one of the most poignant dramas to fill a commercial theater in years. More important yet, Broadway's black bonanza has drawn together an array of talent-actors, singers, dancers, writers, choreographers and directors-as well as steadily growing numbers of black theatergoers-who can only enrich popular culture in all its manifestations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Welcome to the Great Black Way! | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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