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...playoffs, the National League's wild, wild East became an exciting and totally unpredictable show. Though the Mets, for example, have been one of the weakest power-hitting teams in either league this season, over the past two weeks they unaccountably went on a home-run jag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Funny Bounces | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...because Tennessee Williams once was just such an artist that the appearance of Out Cry is immensely saddening. Here, the man who suffers and the mind which creates are no more separate than a drunk and his crying jag In the plays that earned Williams his reputation as America's finest dramatist, he showed that he could impose the order of art on his darkling terrors and forge passion and compassion out of pain. Out Cry is devoid of those gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Crack-Up | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang and played guitar, toured Australia and Hawaii with Country Singer Roy Acuff, and wrote and performed two recorded songs for MGM: It's No Summer Love and Baby with the Barefoot Feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cornelia: Determined to Make Do | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...Updike's precision grows accordingly, down to the news stories Harry sets in type. And, as sexual needs become franker (it is in sex that Rabbit's peers are as sentient as he), Updike's use of stream-of-consciousness is ecstatically successful, Janice's already-famous Molly Bloom jag vitally compresses an expository confession until it is touching in its revelation of character, and sexually provocative...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike's Rabbit, Back in Brewer | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

...more flash-in-the-pan for Bergman fans: everyone manages to notice the broken tricycle during Bibi Andersson's naked crying-jag in the stairwell scene; the camera lingers long enough to mark the symbolism. We have no definitive answers, but "Rosebud" ought to be enough to start the search for meaning...

Author: By Jeff Bergelson, | Title: The Touch | 11/10/1971 | See Source »

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