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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spared none of the brutality. The boy sees everything, including his father's death, watches two soldiers torture mice by frying them on a live wire, "though their faces are as innocent as children," and sees the bloody, inert body of a man whom the enemy has tortured. Contrary to Greek myths, animals do not imitate men, rather the men are brought down to a constant animal awareness of their bodies. They are starving. The land cannot feed us all, thinks...

Author: By Kim Bendheim, | Title: Outlasting Death | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

...been impossible with that script). So he tried to do it both ways and it came out neither--a mess, complicated by the celebrated Edward Gorey's black-and-white cartoon sets, which reduced the play to the dimensions of cardboard. The most effective scene in the production--even though it was completely inconsistent with the tone of a 30's movie--was an erotic, sado-masochistic seduction of the ingenue by Count Dracula. The production had one indisputable asset: Frank Langella, the most endearing, cuddlesome teddy-bear Dracula ever to pierce a jugular...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

Eiseley's most significant accomplishment, though, is to rediscover another English naturalist named Edward Blyth, who as early as 1835 set forth the tenets of what later became known as the the ory of natural selection. Darwin, Eiseley argues persuasively, was more than just a little familiar with Blyth's work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Debt Discharged | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...gangly, nice-looking blond kid, just out of high school, still living at home and wondering what he ought to do with his life. He is, or should be, about as typical in looks and problems as a teen-ager can be. Except for this one quirk: though his background is middle-class and Middle Western-strictly white bread-he has taken to speaking with a heavy Italian accent. From his room comes the sound of Italian opera and language lessons, he has renamed the family cat Fellini, and induced his mother to cook what his father disgustedly calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cutups | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Screenwriter Julius Epstein told her simply, "As soon as we know, we'll let you know." Finally, the director decided to shoot both endings. The first exit-Bergman flying off with Henreid-left Bogart looking so good and noble and selfless that the second ending was never filmed. Though Bogart lost the girl, he did win Claude Rains and one of the most famous fadeout lines in cinema: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Playing the End Game | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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