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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For Sellars has brutally mashed Much Ado About Nothing's script to fit the limits of his acting company and his own self-indulgent desire to buck conventionality. His innovations in staging are often clever and amusing, like his use of several mannequins to fill various roles for which he...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

The lower class constables move like some inexorable natural force but eventually they do solve the mystery, in their own Keystone Kops style, and bring it to the attention of the near-sighted aristocrats. But of course in this production the mystery they solve has never been properly posed to...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

"On Tuesday Commander Mike Griffin landed his 'Blue Blasters' A-4D jet on the flight deck and came up to the bridge to report to Captain Searcy. Griffin had just overflown the beach area and helplessly watched the Brigade being driven back to the sea. Searcy was shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blunders by Men Wearing Blinders | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

The book's title emphasizes the discrepancy, in law, between what a witness says on the stand-which could in fact be handed to the jury as a written transcript-and how he says it, his general demeanor, the matter of flesh-and-blood delivery that sways a jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The I of the Beholder | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Parker's own hard-line commitment to rock is evident both in casual conversation ("I'm not about to give people music about rolling down the highway") and, where it properly belongs and truly flourishes, in his songs, which are like sneak attacks on his own psychic defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barnstorming For Fool's Gold | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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