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...Rochelle Oliver), a hooker shacked up in a motel room with a black-clad psychopath (Larry Bryggman) who calls himself Terrible Jim Fitch and robs churches for a living. Lonesome Sally is in a state of shock; Terrible Jim has already cut up her face, and during his long rant of self-justification and jaunty mockery and bewildered rage it becomes clear that her revenge will be to maneuver him into murdering her. Unfortunately, the tension and terror of the situation are repeatedly canceled by Terrible Jim's wry wisecracks about his life and times as a "churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughing in the Dark | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...carries almost everywhere, and the Fourth Commando standard bears the red and green of the Legion. At inspections, Steiner often gets his troops' attention by firing off a few rounds from his Browning, then lectures them, his walking stick under one arm. "You are not Legionnaires," he will rant after a particularly bad showing. "You are not men." He has demoted at least one captain to private, but has also been known to pick a good man from the ranks and make him an officer. When he recently elevated a private to 2nd lieutenant, one of his officers complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, one of Eugene O'Neill's last plays, laments a loveless trio. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan give poignant portrayals of three emotional cripples hiding their numerous afflictions beneath much blather and rant. Theodore Mann directs a neatly tuned production at the Circle in the Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, one of Eugene O'Neill's last plays, laments a loveless trio. W. B. Bydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan give poignant portrayals of three emotional cripples hiding their numerous afflictions beneath much blather and rant. Theodore Mann directs a lightly tuned production at the Circle in the Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 30, 1968 | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, one of Eugene O'Neill's last plays, laments a loveless trio. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan give poignant portrayals of three emotional cripples hiding their numerous afflictions beneath much blather and rant. Theodore Mann directs a finely composed production at the Circle in the Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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