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...Paradisio, and the disfavor that came with more "modern" times and from which he was lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding enough to focus the silliness. When...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Stars and Stripes | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance, was discovered to be alive only when a mortician saw blood flowing from a vein into which he was about to inject embalming fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Going Gentle into That Good Night | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...graphic facility. When he set up a repeated frieze of drawn motifs, as in the mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, the result-as drawing-was rather monotonous. But when he found he could throw lines of paint in the air, the laws of energy and fluid motion made up for the awkwardness of his fist and, from then on, there was no grace that he could not claim. Compared with his paintings, the myth of Pollock is of no importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An American Legend in Paris | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Wrong. An as-yet unidentified hand knocked the ball from Trout's grasp, and in one fluid motion, Cornell's Lucas scooped it up and banged it in off the glass before time ran out. Final score: Cornell 57, Harvard...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Top Columbia, 73-69 Fall to Cornell at the Buzzer | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

What follows is a kind of courtroom trial in which Davenport interrogates everyone and reconstructs the crime in flashback. The flashback is a tell-and-show device. It can be used with fluid emotional mastery, as Arthur Miller used it in Death of a Salesman; here it seems more like a dry studied exercise on a schoolroom blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Color Line | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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