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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child. There is one catch: the townspeople must murder their popular mayor-elect. In his youth he seduced and abandoned a poor girl so he could marry a little money. Now old and rich, she wants vengeance. She believes everyone has a price, and she is right. Friedrich Durrenmatt's morality play THE VISIT seemed shockingly cynical when the Lunts brought it to Broadway in the '50s. In a sad measure of the disillusioning years since, it now triumphs as a comedy. Harris Yulin is fine as the betrayer and Jane Alexander dazzling as the raddled revenger. But the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Price Is Right | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...even the Swiss can resist making disparaging remarks about themselves and their country. Poet Carl Spitteler claimed that if the Swiss had created the Alps, they would not have been so high. Playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt noted that his country's vaunted neutrality "makes me think of a virgin who earns her living in a bordello but wants to remain chaste." Not surprisingly, the Swiss celebrated the septicentennial of their confederation this month with restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Angst Rises In the Alps | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

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