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The key role of Dith Pran went to Dr. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian refugee whose own exploits mirrored those of Dith Pran's. Perhaps his lack of thespian training accounts for the excessive Oriental inscrutability his brings to his part. But then living in the paranoid hell of Cambodia...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cambodia Witness | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

Officials at Yale, where this year's freshman class has highest number of Asian-Americans ever, say they, like Harvard, will adopt the same policy of less aggressive Oriental recruitment in the future

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: College Clears Up Asian Controversy | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

The work of Matisse is a carnival: of light, of warmth, of eros and of art itself. Matisse (Rizzoli; $95) is a celebration of the celebrator: a formidable, 752-page volume with 930 illustrations that took 14 years to prepare. Not a minute was wasted. The French master's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

The King Stag, written in 1762 by Carlo Gozzi in revolt against the realistic naturalism of contemporary theater, is a feast of the imagination with the technique and logic of the commedia dell'arte, Italy's native improvisational comedy. The third Gozzi production directed this year by Andrei Serban. The...

Author: By --john P. Wouck, | Title: Fantasy in Serendippo | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

The costumes, worth the price of admission in themselves, are a cross between commedia dell'arte and Oriental styles, corresponding to no known time or place. Some, like Tartaglia's shimmering, black, bat-winged cape, are sumptuous and frightening. Truffaldino, the simple-minded bird catcher, on the other hand, looks...

Author: By --john P. Wouck, | Title: Fantasy in Serendippo | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

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