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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lyric best, Williams gave us the powerful tension and drama of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In Vieux Carre, written more than 20 years later, it has become more difficult for the author to rise above melodrama. And while we've certainly come to expect the simplistic repetition of the themes, there still is a limit to how much we can stomach of lines like, "People die of loneliness ...loneliness is so thick in this house, you can feel it,' and "There's no defense against the truth...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Lonely People | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...their own roles, perhaps in part because of the weakness and limited range of their characters. This seems especially true for Houghton, who might be expected to be better given the success of an earlier attempt at Williams, performing Brick in last year's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. However, the part of the usually barechested Tye, while allowing ample opportunity for literal stretching of the muscles, seems to leave little room for more figurative artistic flexing...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Lonely People | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around the bases, Bevacqua reflected, "I've had a lot of valleys in my career; I've probably reached the top of the mountain tonight." Or at least somewhere between the roof of the Imperial Bank Building and heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Not-So-Classic Fall Classic | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

Twenty years ago, he carefully slipped off his shoes before climbing atop a university police car so as not to damage campus property. The roof buckled some anyway. So did the University of California, Berkeley, as Mario Savio ignited the Free Speech Movement, which in turn lit the fires of nearly a decade of campus activism. Last week, graying and more introspective but still burning with the spirit of protest, Savio, now 41, was back at Berkeley to celebrate the 1964 birth of the Free Speech Movement. Some 3,000 middle-aging rebels and current students gathered at the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 15, 1984 | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...sailing ships, and they all had plenty of passengers aboard, by necessity working together. "In history," Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin explained, "even the great explorer had been the man who drew others to a common purpose." Try to imagine an individual so rugged he could raise a roof beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Rugged Individual Rides Again | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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