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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bent may be regarded as pro-gay in that it displays no social or moral qualms about anyone's being gay. But Playwright Sherman is not proselytizing. He wants to show us the brute cost of survival, the deep need and sustaining force of human affection in dire adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Bent does not begin in the death camp, but on a hung-over morning after a dissolute evening of booze, cocaine and sadomasochistic pastimes. The apartment of Max and his dancer-lover Rudy (David Marshall Grant) is broken in on by Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

For the past few seasons, television insiders have tended to talk mostly about two networks-front-running ABC and third-place NBC. Last week all that changed. After the 1979-80 season's first Nielsen sweeps, second-place CBS quietly rose to the top of the ratings. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Though ABC is still likely to be the ratings leader for the season as a whole, its November loss to CBS is the strongest indication yet that its era of sovereignty is over. Explains Joel Segal, a senior vice president at the Ted Bates agency: "Minus the World Series and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

ABC's decline is largely a result of corporate overconfidence. In an effort to bolster the few weak spots on its schedule this fall, ABC broke one of TV's sacrosanct laws: it moved winning shows to new time periods. Such traditional Top Ten hits as Happy Days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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