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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garp Creator John Irving strikes again The pieces of the dream machine are in place. Scaffolding has been erected against a brick building for a shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

In 1963 we got a middling traditional production. In 1969 came a sardonic Brechtian version placed in our own time--a fascinating show, but a failure. Now Coe has avowedly set out to rely almost wholly on the words and the audience's imagination (as the text itself repeatedly states...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

All this affords maximum fluidity, as well as plenty of versatility at the hands of an inventive director--which Coe clearly is. For example, while the Third Chorus describes the 'fleet majestical' on its journey from Hampton to the French coast, some ropes and some wooden props held in a...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

Since 1978, when Silverman went to NBC after spectacular success as a programming wiz at the other two networks, his failures had come as fast and furiously as they might in a mini-series based on the story of Job. Prime time at NBC was a gutted ghetto, its Nielsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fred Finally Comes A-Cropper | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 13, 1981 | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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