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...consciousness. Eliot House will be presenting Jean-Louis Barrault's "Rabelais," a modern adaptation of Rabelais's "Gargantua" and termed by one of the production staff "a dramatic obscenity, or to be more subtle about it, a dramatic game in two parts." Dunster House, too, may well create a stir with its production of the success de scandale "Saved" by Edward Bond...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Festival May 1 to May 14 | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

...rates ranged from a high of 47% (RCA) to a low of 17% (Bethlehem Steel). Only two of the 17 (Bethlehem and International Harvester) appear to have got off easier than ITT. Whether ITT's rather cushy tax burden is legally justified or not, it is bound to stir further public concern about the inequities of U.S. taxes, a problem that is expanding into a major election issue. When Vanik recently discovered that U.S. Steel Corp. took advantage of so many tax breaks that, although it had earned $ 155 million last year, it planned "no provision for taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: ITT'S Small Contribution | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...Coop (Cliff Robertson) is a rodeo rider who has spent the better part of a decade in stir, serving his time while winning points for the prison rodeo team. Now that he is outside again, he finds that things have changed. He returns home to discover both the old place and his old Ma (Geraldine Page) have suffered something of a decline. Hippies are abroad in the land-even in Texas. Top hands fly to rodeos in private planes and talk about their brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Overreacher | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...author shows the man's moodiness and tension and his fears that the coming Poor People's March on Washington would fail to revive the nonviolent movement. But there is no real assessment of King as a complex man who had roiled the South but failed to stir the Northern cities deeply enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Random Act | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...work late but the meat-loaf is ready to go so why doesn't he just put it in the oven? Next week you call home and tell him you've left all the ingredients out on the counter and suggest he stir them together and put the loaf in the oven. The third week you call and say that everything is in the refrigerator and he knows how to put it together from last week. The fourth week you ask him to go to the store and buy the ingredients, and you've arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Meatloaf Gambit | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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