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They come closest to it at the very beginning. As the light go up, cast members in rags spill out over the stage area and into the audience, assaulting, abusing, fondling, pickpocketing and beating each other. Here is Brecht's London writ small, and the streetsinger (Kermit Norris) croons the...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Arab solidarity was indeed in tatters. Sadat's mission had been blessed by the moderate regimes of Morocco, Tunisia and the Sudan. His bankrollers, the Saudis (see box), at least did not say no. But the visit to Israel was denounced by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Goodbye, Arab Solidarity | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Tattered Fortune. He is the least of Maggie's problems. The time is the troubled '70s, and as Italy slides toward anarchic egalitarianism, immense wealth is becoming less and less fun. When she and her third husband stay at their house on the island of Ischia, they must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline and Fall? | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

He returned from his year in London with his confidence and his ambition in tatters. But after six months of selling tires back in Detroit, Moriarty auditioned successfully at the Guthrie Theater. At first he was discomfited by the Guthrie's classically English style of acting. "I didn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Uncommon Apprentice | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

"By raising the calamitous scenario of hundreds of thousands of other union members being thrown onto short-time or out of work altogether, Heath is plainly playing high-stakes British roulette. He rigidly insists that if he gives in to the three angry unions, his Phase III wage-control program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Lights Are Going Out Again | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

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