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The juxtaposition of these two stories as stage adaptations is a brilliant stroke of dramatic creativity, and the result is an effective representation of Gogol's strange genius. The cramped plainness of Leverett's D-entry basement (cleverly dubbed the "Gogol Space" for this production) is well-utilized in both...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Wins by A Nose | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

In an attempt to utilize effectively the space of the North House Dining Hall. director Blake Spraggins often stages scenes simultaneously on the upper and lower levels, with less than successful results. Actors meander aimlessly through the audience, pretending not to notice a love song being performed above them. The...

Author: By Lois Leveen, | Title: World-Weary | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Tomas (Daniel Day Lewis) has an urgent demand, repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex And Death in Czechoslovakia THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Television ads are a notoriously inefficient way to reach Little Iowa, because most of the message and money is squandered on nonparticipants. Still, all major players in the state have made heavy media buys, though Bush has carefully hoarded his ammunition for the climactic final days. The ads currently running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Folks with First Say | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

The play's prickly virtues are recaptured in a spare staging by Director Arvin Brown at New Haven, Conn.'s, Long Wharf Theater. Hal Holbrook stars in the role Wilder sometimes enacted himself, as the Stage Manager or narrator of this funny valentine to the squandered joys of everyday life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scraping Away the Sentiment OUR TOWN | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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