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Horses are sent to glue factories, old soldiers fade away, and senior Crimson editors just watch lots...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: TELEVISION | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...have Andrei's death scene with the grieving Natasha at his bedside go on and on? Well, in the adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel which visiting director Norman Ayrton is staging in the second mainstage slot this season at the end of March, the romantic glow doesn't fade because the moralizing comes first. In the stage version the voice of Tolstoy has been fleshed out as a narrator who in the opening minutes of the play, introduces the characters and soliloquizes on the main themes. And don't worry that the vision of Napoleon's troops setting fire...

Author: By Shirley Chriane, | Title: STAGE | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...universal chord in a way that the instrumentals try in vain to do. The piano and guitar dominate the score, and a tighter structure gives the song more power and coherence than the others. However, the tune's energy is undercut by a lackluster guitar solo on the fade...

Author: By J.t. Defenderfer, | Title: Is Aladdin Sane? | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

...customers if only they did not have to admit that what they were purchasing was porn. So R.R. perfected the soft-edge sex scene in which, just as the worst is about to happen, all the heavy breathing seems to steam the reader's glasses and the details fade discreetly into daydreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...want on your team, at your party or by your side. Mention the Duckling's name, and you could see that familiar smirk form on your friend's face, the required prelude to a "They're so weird" pronouncement. The judgment thus rendered, the outcast would just as quickly fade out of your reality, but upon occasion you might find yourself wondering what exactly lay beneath that inscrutable mask, what made the misfit...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: I Was a Teenage Telekinetic | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

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