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...Inspector General, directed by Peter Sellars '80. In his best--and last--production here, Sellars picked up the stone of politically-influenced readings of Gogol's play and found a bed of grotesque worms and grubs underneath. Sellars made Gogol's townspeople universal types of small-mindedness, highlighted by every variety of physical and spiritual deformity. And he did so through an almost too-painstaking devotion to his author's words: the new translation he used rendered literally Gogol's Russian folk adages and gnarled figures of speech. The translation missed occasionally and frequently hit--but the production cannot...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: ART in Retrospect: Textual Ethics | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

...dude, cool and sassy, street smart and maybe even mean if somebody tries to hassle him. Anyway, he will have you know that there is plenty of righteous rage underneath his hipster's slickness-better not mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cooling Out | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...their own homes. But some of them may now benefit from the rediscovery of a cost-cutting device that dates back to colonial days: land lease. Rather than buying a house with a modest plot of property, they are purchasing just the house and leasing the ground underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Landless Gentry | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...these veterans. Unfortunately, Lowe will probably best be remembered for his most innocuous song. "Cruel to be Kind," and for producing Elvis Costello; Edmunds will be remembered for his burning guitar interpretations of classical music in the late sixties, and for producing the groups Brindley Schwarz. Yet somewhere underneath all this lies great rock and roll that many people should be dancing...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Snap, Crackle Pop Rock | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

...Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, a Black and two whites, left their homes in the North to journey into America's belly. Full of hope, not sure they would come out alive, they wanted to change the world. But there was no place for their dreams underneath the sweltering Southern sun. Trapped amidst a fusion of heat and hate, their visions collided with the granite realities of the "Southern Way of Life...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Voting Rights, Found and Lost? | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

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