Word: edens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
When God foreclosed on Eden, he condemned Adam and Eve to go to work. Work has never recovered from that humiliation. From the beginning, the Lord's word said that work was something bad: a punishment, the great stone of mortality and toil laid upon a human spirit that might otherwise soar in the infinite, weightless playfulness of grace...
...Pratt deliver -is a ripe and consistent graphic vision. Excalibur is the handsomest film since Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, and is as alive to the subtle textures of earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur his power rises suddenly, majestically, from a mercurial, brooding lake; a 300-ft.-high waterfall murmurs like silk in a soft wind; a soldier's lifeblood and the mud he died in become one. It is the morning of a new age-Christianity...
...East of Eden is situated somewhat west of Dallas and north of Flamingo Road. Richard Shapiro's adaptation is terribly tasteful and tastefully terrible; it reiterates themes ad nauseam, while denying the characters any emotional room in which to maneuver. Director Harvey Hart has allowed his cast to display some of the most ludicrously solemn overacting since Exorcist II: The Heretic...
Because the lead actors refuse to spark against each other, East of Eden fails as human drama and even as entertaining melodrama. With any stars, the show was unlikely to have ranked with the best prime-time soaps. With callow Tim and sallow Sam, East of Eden is doomed to scrape Bottoms. -By Richard Corliss