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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PURGATORY IS THE overriding subject of Narratives, Earl Kim's new musical adaptation of various excerpts from Samuel Beckett's work. In seven skits Kim effectively captures the essence of Beckett's purgatory-a world founded on the premise of an irreducible absurdity-one in which the realms of the shadow and substance constantly collide,interweave and fall apart. In this world characters are racked by doubt and tormented by a nightmarish past which they cannot escape or hope to understand. Purgatory is not a way-station between heaven and hell in Kim's view, it is the Universe itself...

Author: By Ken Wise, | Title: Talking Instruments | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...Kingdom. If the contract works out, 10% of Cardin-Cathay will be reserved for sale inside China, which is probably wise, considering the fact that in France even a readymade Cardin frock sells for at least $200, as much as the average Chinese worker's income for about seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Paris Fashions Go to Peking | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Like all Harvard-Yale contests, it was The Game for women's basketball, but like the 1978 football team, the Crimson fell seven points short, dropping a 50-43 decision to the Bulldogs, Saturday in the semi-final of the Ivy League Tournament...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Hoopsters Lose to Yale In Women's Ivy Tourney | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...Keep warm, keep moving and keep dry' sort of sums it up in seven words," Mahoney said...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Nurse Explains Winter Danger Of Frostbite | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Throughout the meet, Maura Costin and Emily Feldmen were also outstanding. Both swimmers competed in seven events and swam their season's fastest times in every event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Take Fourth-Place Finish in Ivies. | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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