Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cabin somewhere down below, he had spent his honeymoon. Now he could not find the cabin-or much of anything else. Gazing through the window of a helicopter, Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm, 41, stared in silence at the apocalyptic scene along the banks of the Big Thompson River-splayed bridges, kindling from hundreds of vanished homes, hulks of cars turned upside down like giant beetles. "We found a hotel ledger this morning that showed 23 paying guests," he said finally to TIME Correspondent David De Voss. "But we can't find the people. The river has reclaimed...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt to indicate omnipresent memories of glories past. As the audience enters, a young man is shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play...
Some of the obvious blunders--muffed lines, missed cures, over-anticipated dialogue--can be attributed to opening night nervousness, but it appears that in the pacing of the play, Thompson again is seeking an inappropriate mood. Miller provides some fine telling moments which are worthy of pauses, but the bulk of the play must be quick-paced. The dialogue is, after all, essentially locker room banter; under Thompson's direction it is transmuted into nervous chatter at a dull cocktail party...
...Hunter Thompson's highly personal and impressionistic writings are not meant to provide answers to the type of political questions that "Newswatch" seems to want answered [July 19]. The buyer of Rolling Stone realizes this and does not feel "ripped off." It is the nation's TV viewers who are "ripped off' by the technically sophisticated yet intellectually barren TV coverage of the Democratic National Convention...
...Hunter Thompson's piece on Jimmy Carter is a typical Rolling Stone article, whose excesses cry out for the red pencil. Most R.S. ramblings would not pass Journalism...