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Technically too. Godspell takes simple measures and creates the spectacular. The scenery is sparse, a chain-linked fence is the only backdrop and some cloth scraps, planks and two sawhorses become the roadway for the Good Samaritan and the pigsty for the prodigal son, thrones for sinning kings and wise judges, and the table for the Last Supper. The lighting for the dance numbers includes a strobe light in "Bless the Lord" and red and green spotlights in several other numbers. In the "Finale," easily the most moving number a single beam shines down on Weatherstone, while the other characters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All for the Best | 2/12/1983 | See Source »

...inches left in a quart of vodka. For reasons that seem stupefyingly apparent, his wife has walked out on him, and he has done what every alcoholic does in a moment of crisis-hit the bottle. But his redemptive godfather is at hand, a most unlikely good Samaritan who rips out the doorknob to make his entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bottle Baby | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...days of testimony in Memphis, the prosecution said the physician had prescribed more than 12,000 doses of various drugs to Presley in the last 20 months of his life. But defense witnesses painted a picture of a doctor who took in patients other doctors had spurned, a "good Samaritan" who tried to curb Presley's habit. Last week the jury returned its verdict: not guilty on all counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Game Loser | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...personal terms, there is no better instruction. However, the Good Samaritan on the dangerous road of modern leadership who stops too long to minister to a few fallen persons (the hostages) may harm his nation-or never get to his destination. Turning away from evil (the Shah) may invite a greater evil (the Ayatullah Khomeini). Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov seems to be inheriting more of the world than are the meek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Too Good a Samaritan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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