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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all else, though, we were struck by the tone of many of the letters received. Some correspondents took the care to convincingly present their point of view in a straightforward manner, eschewing nastiness in favor of serious efforts to make us change our minds. But others--more than a few, in fact--were downright vicious...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Closet Anxieties | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...shoe has to be taken off some severed leg found in the underbrush, and it's of no use except to somebody with only one good leg. But this doesn't happen very often, usually corpses are found with both shoes intact.' Valenzuela's tone is a far cry from fantasy. Says she: "Magical realism was a beautiful resting place, but the thing is to go forward." The way is now clear. After 100 years of solitude, Latin writers are demanding and getting more than occasional solicitude. - R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Fiction Is Fantastica | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...speaker is Robert. The listener is his wife Emma (as in Bovary?). The subject under discussion is his best friend, who he has just discovered has been having an affair with Emma these many years. It is not bitterness that dictates Robert's tone. He is, as he says, telling the exact truth. For he is the sort of modern man, up on the literature (and the movies and the plays), who expects husbands and wives to be unfaithful but is really quite shocked to find that his best friend is cheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Theater Game | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Kingsley (Gandhi) plays Robert, Patricia Hodge is Emma, and Jeremy Irons is their friend, and they are brisk, expert and rather too much of an ensemble. There is not enough contrast of tone between them. The fault may be not of their making, since they are being asked to play theatrical conventions instead of people. David Jones' direction reinforces the problem: elegantly geometrical in its calculation of cuts and angles, it is uninterested in the higher calculus of the emotions. This all serves the text but not the irresistible demands of the movie medium for emotional intensity. Film finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Theater Game | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

Passion is also the heart's blood of the theater, and Williams is to the stage what a lion is to the jungle. At its best, his dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Laureate of the Outcast | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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