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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Sully Brown seems to have cast with an eye to physical appearance. This effect works particularly well when Hannah and the ghost of the Murgatroyd she renounced (David Haughton) sing the tale of their love; the actors literally embody the subjects of their song--a "pretty little flower" and a "big oak tree." Overall, the cast is in fine singing and speaking voice, though the stilted dialogue overpowers Weary at times, and Monnen's Cockney accent seems to have a mind of its own, coming and going at will. But there's no need to carp. Acting...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Bloody Good G&S | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...were these Fuller's only transgressions. In 1975 he published Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, an approving look at a South American "psychic surgeon." Then, a year ago, Fuller brought out The Ghost of Flight 401, in which he credulously describes the experiences of flight crew members who claim to have seen apparitions of colleagues killed in a plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Town Crier | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...dead people," she said for openers, "because it's a waste of time. They never answer back." Okay, I thought, we've got a real case here, so be nice and maybe she'll fall asleep. "Handguns shouldn't be controlled, you know, I mean what if a ghost comes into your house? If you don't have a gun by your bed, what can you do to chase the ghost away? I have my rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching, trying...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Another major mistake was to start new settlements after Sadat's visit had opened the chance for peace. The government started what I call ghost settlements in Sinai-13, 15, 20, who knows? Does this help the cause of peace? Is this the time to start new settlements, when for the first time you are talking directly to the President of Egypt? This is the first Israeli government that agreed to limit settlements to military camps. But then to build a military camp where you want a settlement and describe that as a new settlement within an existing military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Two Voices in Opposition | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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