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...pries loose his grip on its life. His wife deserts him. His barked order no longer controls his anarchic daughter Marilyn, a Sarah Lawrence spitfire who consumes and casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons him full of honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Terrible Beauty | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

MEDAL OF HONOR RAG by Tom Cole

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Living with Defeat | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

Occasionally a playwright comes along to chalk up the score all over again. David Rabe did it with visceral force in Sticks and Bones, a play in which the hero is at peace only with the skeletons who stalk his mind. Medal of Honor Rag is a slighter drama argued like a legal brief rather than felt like a wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Living with Defeat | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

What a biased, vindictive, small-minded rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...there to see Johnny Mathis, and we were there to see this guy play out front for the Isleys. This guy played like a maniac and we both knew he was gonna end up being Jimi Hendrix. Green sharkskin suit, patent leather shoes--he was wearing a do-rag then. He played a Strat--old or fake?--Lefthanded. Custom. Remember when they did "Shout"? how maniac...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

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