Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...
...Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan, is a journey back to October, 1939--one that is sometimes sentimental, but nearly always absorbing. One character after another wanders in to Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, each with his or her own memories, hopes, disappointments, etc. The play is certainly dated, but that's part of its charm. And this production sets the right tone, with a set that could serve as a museum model for a down-and-out bar in 1939. At the Loeb tonight and tomorrow and Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., except...
...William Saroyan's Time of Your Life shocked many with its unstructured style when it debuted in the fall of 1939. The play still comes as a surprise today even though its hard realism may seem time when compared to more recent plays. Saroyan shows us a depressing series of life slices all in the setting of a West Coast bar. Throughout the play he has us jump from pinball players to phone callers to despondent bar stoolies. Miraculously he brings all of them together at the play's conclusion...
After a hard day at the job, some folks like to slip into something comfortable and just clown around for a while. Take Actor Walter Matthau, who teamed up with Son Charles, 13, and Stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan, 29 (daughter of Writer William Saroyan), for opening night of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Los Angeles. While Singer Tony Orlando played ringmaster, Actors Bob Newhart, Robert Mitchum, Sally Struthers and other off-duty stars paraded into center ring on elephants, all to raise money for Project Hope. "Circus performers are without guile, thoroughly professional," said Matthau after the annual...
...neatly into two parts that might be subtitled "Spar and Tell." The first act is a land of sexual scrimmage with earthy roughhousing on Gert's part and some wild and woozy comic foolery on Harry's. The tone is that of a mating between Steinbeck and Saroyan...