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...series of questions and answers--Vlada Petric directs a questions to Loeb Producing Director George Hamlin: "Since you belong to this institution, do you plan to hire Mr. Serban to change a little bit of the theater we see here, which I find very conventional, boring and stale?" People gasp, some applaud, some laugh. During a reception afterwards, Petric tells me, "Two elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says it with evident satisfaction, almost gleefully. He has made this criticism of Harvard theater before, and says...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Vladimir Petric Teaches Film | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...enterprising band of seniors at the University of California at Davis is merrily quaffing homemade ale amidst the beakers and burners of a science lab. But wait. One of them is throwing his brew down the nearest sink. Has the ale addled his head? Have the suds gone stale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High Spirits at Brew U. | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...very artless artist can sometimes achieve freshness simply by not realizing that his material is stale. A very strong-minded one can, on a good day, banish cliches from an overused subject by sheer force of will. Ridley Scott, an English television director who had not done a full-length movie before The Duellists, clearly is strong-minded, and his film does not contain a stale moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...very stale stuff, and, sadly, Bergman makes no more of it than the musical Cabaret did. It all comes out more picturesque than terrifying. Bergman, too, shows the developing monster through the eyes of an innocent, though this one lacks the lively intelligence of the young man in Cabaret. Bergman calls his hero Abel (David Carradine). He is an American circus performer of Jewish descent, stranded in Berlin because his brother and partner has hurt his arm and they cannot continue their trapeze act. The picture opens with Abel discovering the brother's suicide. This places him under police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cabaret Act | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Several students in Dunster this week said they feel the Vorenbergs have been good masters and want to leave the House before they grow stale...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Farewell, Masters V. | 12/10/1977 | See Source »

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