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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harold Prince directs with pile-driving force and thereby sacrifices the characters' personal emotions to visual and aural dynamics. If, as in Sweeney Todd, he has tossed away the key to the human heart, he is a master strategist of the stage. He deploys his acting troupes with brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Vogue of the Age: Carrion Chic | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Yet if audiences can grant the picture its imaginative leaps, and go with its surprising tone, they will be pleasantly rewarded. The wit derives mainly from Writer-Director Meyer's wry confrontations between Futurist Wells and a world that does not in any way match his optimistic projections of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Hours | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Time After Time has, in addition to its delicate tone, more than adequate suspense. It also makes a worthwhile if not highly original point, stated most clearly by Warner as he flips from one violent image to another on television: "Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Hours | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

The smart money says the Angels are a flawed team: too many injuries, no shortstop, little speed, middling defense. Still, the offense can erupt against any pitcher. Says Slugger Baylor: "We put a lot of sixes and sevens on the Scoreboard." One thing the Angels do have is the peppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those High-Flying Angels | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Nixon was a Washington Senators fan until eight years ago. When the team left town in 1971, Nixon pronounced himself "heartbroken" and switched loyalties to his "home town" Angels, whose Anaheim stadium is 35 miles from San Clemente. True to his word, the former President has shown up regularly at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fan from San Clemente | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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