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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written as a novel in 1946, Beckett's Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for Godot in its earliest and distinctly embryonic state. The two title characters (Frederick Neumann and Bill Raymond) are as close as barstool buddies, and they stumble and blather about in a bleak inscape of metaphysical despair. Despite intermittent japery, they are triste, petulant atheists who resent the fact that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Triste Couple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...film uses much footage on Luke from Heyman's so-called Genesis Project, his five-year-old effort to film the entire Bible for educational purposes (Heyman has also filmed most of Genesis). He hopes that the proceeds from theater and TV showings of Jesus and future spin-offs will allow him to complete his project, which has already cost $22.5 million, before the end of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Film for Bible Purists | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Continent will draw many So viet agents out of deep cover, thus crimping the enemy's espionage style. But all we ever see are dozens of anonymous goons blasting away with submachine guns every time the train is halted, so that ploy appears to be a wasted effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flat Country | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Alex's most notable failures were at tempts to establish a permanent studio of his own and to mastermind British Lion, a major, state-subsidized effort to stabilize the British film industry after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...John opened the second quarter with a bullet to Bill McGlone at the Brown 15. Harvard got no further, however, and Cody came on again, this time for a 31-yd. effort against the wind...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Gives Gridders 23-14 Mudbath | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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