Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If TV programmers were always predictable, Hill Street Blues would have had a short life as one of the medium's more notable flops. Despite critical praise, the unorthodox police show settled near the bottom of the ratings after its January 1981 debut. But NBC renewed it anyway and then...
This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than...
But before Rybakov could tackle it, he built a successful career as a children's novelist, winning praise for his first novel, The Dirk, in 1950 and following it with a sequel, The Bronze Bird, in 1956. Next came two more teen stories, The Adventures of Krosh and Krosh's...
After a welcome intermission, Mrs. Sorken returns to offer the last entertainment, a parody of Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind. In an informal interview, Durang said he was inspired to write Stye of the Eye because of the effusive praise the critics ladled onto what he felt was...
Durang has written parodies before; in his History of the American Film and his Idiots Karamazov (written with Albert Innaturato) he relied exclusively on the form. But in each of those cases he used familiar cultural images as springboards to more important--and funnier--issues. This latest offering manages only...