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...watches from the sidelines as his teammates lose. True to the script, the signal-caller returns to lead a resounding, regionally televised triumph over the league leaders and cops the first-ever undisputed conference crown the following Saturday with a last-minute victory over The Enemy in a storybook ending. Frank Merriwell? No, Jim Kubacki...
...rather like a storybook fable. A mist-glazed 18th century Scottish village, unknown to any map, wakes from its protective sleep one day in each 100 years. Two 20th century Americans stumble on the town's inhabitants on just that fateful day. Susceptible Tommy (Martin Vidnovic) soon tangles heartstrings with a bewitching local lass, Fiona (Meg Bussert). This actress has a voice of Baccarat crystal. When she pairs with Vidnovic to sing Almost Like Being in Love, all heaven breaks loose...
...birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who was reluctant for her husband to take the throne in the first place, but is, as the London Times declared, probably the most popular royal personage of all time. To the British she symbolizes more than the monarchy: she is the storybook grandmother, loving and merry, always ready with a Band-Aid or a bag of sweets. Reports TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo...
...leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does his life. One night, appalled at the prospect of another TV dinner and more wasted hours sitting in front of the tube, he runs blindly away and somehow finds himself in a verdant spot, drinking water from a storybook stream...
...exclusively in the styles of former masters. There can be only one Picasso; if, say, a whole new generation of artists were to work in his style, it would hardly guarantee better paintings. Likewise, Pippin and the other "concept musicals" of the '70s proved that the Rodgers and Hammerstein storybook musical is a creature of the past, an observation symbolically confirmed by Richard Rodgers' recent death. Experimentation must proceed, but it must always be with an eye toward quality. Fortunately, the '70s provided us with two prime examples of art forms able to meet this difficult balance. Dance flourished...