Word: play
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (NBC, Oct. 1, 9 p.m. EDT). Elizabeth Taylor stars as a fading movie star (no comments, please) who falls for a shady drifter (Mark Harmon) in Tennessee Williams' play...
LULU. Justine Bateman (airhead Mallory on TV's Family Ties) shifts gears to play, competently if without much shading or subtlety, the ultimate femme fatale in Frank Wedekind's expressionist classic, deftly adapted by Roger Downey, at California's Berkeley...
...reported on China for TIME for nine years. When he visited the U.S. for the first time last month, he found himself constantly fielding questions about last June's student massacre in Beijing. Even a Broadway night out offered no respite. "I took my wife to see the play Les Miserables," he says. "Watching the portrayal of the French students at the barricades, I was thinking of the wide-eyed youth in Tiananmen Square...
...which Picasso invented and Braque rapturously extended. The caning in Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, is mechanically printed oilcloth, and its presence in the tiny painting -- worked over with that fierce slanting clutter of painted images, newspaper, glass, cut lemon and so forth -- is a double play with signs, not the insertion of something real into a fiction...
...revival of brooding power hitter George Bell. The August acquisition of spark-plug centerfielder Mookie Wilson added on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "If I wasn't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play...