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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise hackles or sympathies. Kim Stanley has little to do as Frances' eccentric mother, and Sam Shepard is saddled with the preposterous role of Frances' mysterious friend who keeps popping up all over the West Coast whenever she needs consolation. This gifted actor-playwright should have rewritten the script, or at least read it before accepting the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching and Bewildering | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...resorts to poor taste for laughs. Well, I've changed and discovered flok music and I'd like to play you something that means a lot to me "Weinstein, an accomplished pianist, began a tendition of "Both Sides Now" playing the first verse straight. Then came a rewritten second verse featuring refences to personal hygiense and ses that were, to underlate cude. I thought the first year was bad, "syasaother House resident "Last year was the worst...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: But Seriously Folks. . . | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...wedding day Book (1882), and Psychical Research Science and Religion (1925). The almost unimaginable scope of plot and characters contributes as well leaving the reader dazed and satisfied. Humor social commentary and adventure make an odd mixture, but here they combine into something strange and wonderful a Little Women rewritten by a literary descendant of Mary McCarthy and Virginia Woolf...

Author: By Cira Simon, | Title: There and Back Again | 9/30/1982 | See Source »

...first time that the snipers had sabotaged legislation by the Spadolini coalition, but in the past, the defeated measures usually were soon rewritten and passed on a vote of confidence. This time Craxi seemed to be deliberately seeking to force new elections some time in the autumn in the hope of increasing the Socialists' 10% share of the national vote. Encouraged by healthy Socialist gains in recent local elections, Craxi has made no secret of his ambition to become Italy's first postwar Socialist Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Day of Reckoning | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...GROUP of Harvard students revived the Sixties rock-revue Hair this year, and even people in the cast agreed that it was a flop. Staged at the Institute of Politics Forum, the show featured a soupedup title--Hair for the Eighties--and a totally rewritten script to match. Nukes and social spending cuts replaced free love and Vietnam as the subjects of song and dance, but no perceptible effort was made to explain the changes of the past 15 years or the wilting of the flower power generation...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Hair For Its Own Sake | 7/20/1982 | See Source »

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