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...motive led the producers to choose the play in the first place. The play hardly bolsters the interests of art or humanity when it tells the audience (after inviting them to laugh pitilessly at other people's stupidity) that a change in their beliefs about themselves is sufficient to transform their lives. Most people improve their lives only through sustained work or love, and the promise of easy change from within is as misleadingly mean-spirited as it is ultimately depressing. It is perversity to tell people with problems--that is to say, all of us--that a change...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Village Idiots | 4/24/1984 | See Source »

...unsettles those designers, usually the best ones, who put a premium on their creativity. "I create an image, but this look often disappears in the stores," says Giorgio Armani. "Buyers tend to misinterpret the idea and the allure of the designers," grouses Jean-Paul Gaultier, whose clothes attempt to transform the pandemonium of London rock fashion into a whimsical redefinition of youth a la mode. "They buy a big, oversized suit in a small size so it becomes superclassic, not all me." Issey Miyake expects buyers "to be creative. Sometimes they're afraid and I say, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...puts a sprig of parsley on her cat's dinner so he can join in celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the page turner that her novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Educating Joan | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Ernest Martin, Broadway veterans whose movie version of Cabaret won eight Oscars; Director Sir Richard Attenborough, whose last film, Gandhi, also won eight Oscars; and Choreographer Jeffrey Hornaday, 27, a former dancer who staged the movement in Flashdance. Michael Bennett, who conceived Chorus Line and who was to transform it for the screen, now has no part in making the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Casting About for a Chorus | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...group will construct a backdrop "a little bigger than a movie screen" depicting the Harvard Stadium to transform the fourth floor gym of the athletic facility into a theater. Higgins said. Officials, however, say the building will not be substantially modified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Proclaims Harvard Arts Day | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

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