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There is a narrow line between sentimentality and mawkishness, and not many writers can walk it without falling into the swamp of syrupy sugar waiting below. Eduardo de Filippo, the Italian playwright, is a rare exception. Filumena, which ran for two years in London, may be the easiest, most companionable show on Broadway. It is warm, undemanding and, in its own modest way, always enjoyable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love Match | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...icemen would have preferred a full week there in Metroland to what happened when they finally did arrive in Ithaca: a fired-up, physical Big Red squad and a hostile, unruly crowd combined to swamp the Crimson, 6-1, last night at Lynah Hall...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Big Red Melts Icemen, 6-1, With Aid From Unruly Crowd | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

...Crimson aquamen rebounded from a disappointing defeat incurred by Princeton's tempestuous Tigers to swamp the nation's premier squad, Indiana...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Happy Days Here Again? | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...strong effect on his chances when he is compared with the leading Republican candidates. In a TIME/Yankelovich survey in August, former California Governor Ronald Reagan led President Carter by four percentage points. But now Carter has pulled into a comfortable 14-point lead over Reagan. Carter would also now swamp John Connally, 53 to 23, compared with a mere four-point advantage for Carter in August. Carter leads Howard Baker by 30 points; in August the President and the Senate minority leader were running in a dead heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Rousing Revival | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...spirit of Tenniel also hovers over Frogs and the Ballet (Gambit; $9.95). Ever since Disney presented a group of pirouetting alligators in Fantasia, reptiles have been as comfortable onstage as they are in the swamp. The Muppets are further evidence, bolstered by Donald Elliott's informative guidebook and Clinton Arrowood's corps d'amphibians.' In fact, the text is a straightforward introduction to the dance. But somehow, when the steps are illustrated by frogs in tutus and tights, an air of lunacy pervades the proceedings and the young reader is suddenly an attendant at the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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