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...METAPHOR which playwright Ronald Ribman has made the title of his play is not an original one. Long before him, Turgenev had likened the lives of some men to the futile effort, the useless suffering, of a fifth horse hastily harnesses to a coach and four. All its striving, the tether lacerating its back as it strains forward, is pointless...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Ronald Ribman's prizewinning drama The Journey of the Fifth Horse stars Dustin Hoffman in his Obie-winning role as a publisher's reader whose life begins to parallel that of a character in a novel he is reading. Repeat...
...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Dustin [The Graduate] Hoffman in Ronald Ribman's The Journey of the Fifth Horse, which won the Obie as the best Off-Broadway play of 1965-66. Repeat...
...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9-10:30 p.m.). "The Final War of Oily Winter" is an original play written for CBS by Ronald Ribman. Ivan Dixon portrays a G.I. who is trapped behind Viet Cong lines and finds it easier to escape the enemy than the well-meaning attentions of a lovely, lonely Vietnamese girl (Tina Chen). Premiere...