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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kramer wrote the play in conjunction with Adam Bellow, a Princeton University student, about Harvard undergraduate dormitory life. After its premiere at Eliot House last December, William Lull, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, offered to produce the play in videotape form for television...

Author: By Karyn E. Esielonis, | Title: Television Producer Cancels 'Lost Cookies' Tube Debut | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...Lull gave the script to officials at WCVB, who made an offer to show the videotape as part of the weekly series "Nightshift...

Author: By Karyn E. Esielonis, | Title: Television Producer Cancels 'Lost Cookies' Tube Debut | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

Unemployment increased slightly to 6.2% of the labor force in March, from 6.1% in February, but the rise was insignificant. Moreover, economic growth is likely to rebound sharply in the second quarter after a winter lull caused by snowstorms and the coal strike. The threat to the economy is less stagflation than plain old inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Takes On Inf lation-At Last | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...that there is a momentary lull in the outpouring of Watergate books, another legacy of the Nixon era needs closer scrutiny. This is the notion, propagated by Richard Nixon, that Government and the press have an adversary relationship. What Nixon meant by the phrase he made perfectly clear in a letter to Spiro Agnew during the 1968 campaign: "When news is concerned, nobody in the press is a friend-they are all enemies." But why the press should have seized upon the adversary description and proudly flaunted it ever since is harder to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Indegoddampendent Is Fine | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

True, Adams overwrites almost every scene, but he manages to turn that fault into a virtue. Length can lull disbelief and make the unlikely seem familiar. Snitter, for instance, has been the victim of mind-control experiments and consequently hallucinates a fair amount of gibberish: "There's a mouse - a mouse that sings - I'm bitten to the brains and it never stops raining - not in this eye any way." The effect of a terrier doing his impression of the fool in King Lear is at first disconcerting. It grows less so with each appearance, and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puppy Love | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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