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...money in the sense that we paid out money before we had anything else coming [back] in." Says Thelma Gray: "They looted the treasury and dumped it into that motion picture." For all that, Sabra Command, starring David Janssen, is not likely even to be released because of its uneven quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Ed McMahon's America | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...first earth-orbiting X-ray satellite Uhuru, which detected a strong and widely fluctuating flow of X rays from Cygnus. Scientists suspected that the radiation source, which they named Cygnus Xl, was a pulsar, or neutron star, the result of a different form of stellar collapse. But the uneven fluctuations bore no resemblance to the steady bursts of radiation from other pulsars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Discovering a Black Hole | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...generally within a few dollars of each other and the consumer often goes through a series of agonizing and conflicting measures to decide between them. But this year the consumer might come out best by simply letting the market decide because the discounts for similar models are highly uneven...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: For Skiers, It's a Buyer's Market This Year | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

...Yale, Eugene Jr. killed himself. Shane turned to heroin, Oona turned to Charlie Chaplin, and both were eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven, and much of his work has not worn well-the prostitutes with hearts of gold, the barroom philosophers marinated in Nietzsche, the neoclassical alas-and-alackers of his Greek-facade tragedies. In experiments like The Great God Brown, O'Neill aspired to be the playwright-as-thinker and failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Disasters | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

BILLED as a "Brazilian Spectacle," a celebration of South American peasant life, Ariano Suassuna's The Rogue's Trial is an often entertaining, somewhat uneven, quasi-insipid piece of theater. It is, we are informed as soon as the lights have dimmed, "a highly moral story," a plea for mercy. The high moral which the play espouses, however, turns out to be that regardless of what one does on earth, heaven is ultimately attainable. It is no wonder that the Brazilian government and coffee-growers have supported the production of the play...

Author: By Mark D. Epstein, | Title: Ethical Rogues | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

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