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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspects the set, a marvelous concoction by Joan Ferenchak, draped with a Brechtian-type banner reading "Figaro," and helps to roll out a rug. "These are two remarkable plays," Havergal says of Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, "and the playwright was a wild, extraordinary man, a pamphleteer and a music teacher. But very soon after he wrote them, one was taken over by Rossini and the other by Mozart, and the operas effectively put a smokescreen over the originals. Cutting and combining the two plays gives the whole show a fascinating irony. The first play...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: All the World's A Stage: Giles Havergal Comes to the Loeb | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...permanent move to America is unlikely, however. Wenders says he plans to return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seeking Planets That Do Not Exist | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

That night the four of us dined together in Jim's cabin, drank wine, ate peanuts and watched the pine and spruce wood fire while we ran our bare feet through the deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

Louise E. Donovan, secretary to President Horner, said yesterday the rug had been in the house for a number of years, but declined to estimate the rug's value...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Radcliffe House Burglarized; Thieves Take Oriental Rug | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...administrator, who wished to remain unidentified, said yesterday Radcliffe owned the University-insured rug...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Radcliffe House Burglarized; Thieves Take Oriental Rug | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

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