Word: places
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question rides with this play, however. Why was it moved from off-Broadway? Money? Strider should be an intimate evening of theater: the simplicity of this production looks out of place amidst the grandeur of a Broadway theater...
ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
This Saturday, the State of New Jersey attempts to shed its last-place image by offering the insatiable sports fan a first: the first bowl game of the 1979 college football season...
...distance between the director and the screen persona is exactly the same as the distance it flatteringly allows the viewer to place between his real and everyday persons. It licenses us to believe that our everyday behavior doesn't truly reflect our character, which is altogether deeper, more astute, suffering and sensitive. The procedure is increasingly cosy and conspiratorial-we go to a Woody Allen film knowing exactly what to expect, and sure enough there it is, a flabby shapeless dish, occasionally spicy, but altogether sagging and apologetic...
Fabrizio said that the Ashram could not possibly operate without a common dwelling place. The Ashram is like a seminary, although the two are not equivalent, he added...