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The production also succeeds in recreating the detail of Brecht's fanciful vision of America as a Babylon on wheels. Sordid vulgarity falls from the garish costumes, the trashy props, and the giant neon arch--inscribed with the names of the seven sins lighting up in succession like a stage...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Brecht in Boldface | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

This is not opera in the Western sense, but the term still applies because the conventions of the form are so theatrical. The only backdrop on the stage is a plain curtain. The stage is carpeted. Props are few and simple. The costumes, by contrast, are spectacular, brilliantly colored and...

Author: By Sol LOUIS Siegel, | Title: Peking Opera | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

At first glance the warehouse, with its mounds of gas-mask bags, ponchos, entrenching tools, field jackets, might be confused with some kind of Army-Navy store. Over the past few years Roller has acquired enough military surplus to equip the national guard of a modest-size Central American dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: A Wizard of Odds and Ends | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

Sagan promotes Sagan and Cosmos promotes Sagan. As he postures before lingering cameras and delivers overdramatic monologues from Star Wars-like props, he skillfully blends fact with fiction, leaving viewers perplexed. By adding gimmicks and schmaltz to fascinating scientific subjects, Sagan cheapens them. This type of presentation imbues science with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1980 | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

A number of satellite characters keep orbiting Ignatius' girth. There is Burma Jones, a young black who has to take a low-paying job at a Bourbon Street strip joint or be arrested for vagrancy. As a sidewalk shill for the acts inside, Jones seeks his revenge: "Night of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rumblings | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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