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Using TIME as the basis for film reports was not unfamiliar to an earlier generation of TIME editors during the years (1935-51) when the MARCH OF TIME was a popular feature in movie theaters. For the current project, HBO staff members went out of their way to involve the editors as well as representatives of the publisher's office. The show was even checked for accuracy by reporter-researchers, in the manner of TIME stories. "It was a collaborative effort all the way through," says Potter. "TIME's editors seemed very interested in the experience of working...
...Kingsley's misfortune that Gandhi cast him in an unfamiliar role: as multimedia star. In his new one-man show, which opened last week on Broadway, he is portraying a man who helped define the image of the charming, demon-driven actor. The stage is suffused with a gloomy glow-the dressing room for a command performance in hell, crowded with the ghosts of Kean's past. His wife, his mistress, his dead son and his surviving one, the theater managers who wronged him and the leading men he saw as his incompetent rivals, all are evoked...
...which for the first time displayed for great numbers of Americans the works of Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh, announced: "Art is a sign of life. There can be no life without change, as there can be no development without change. To be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life." People believed that. The trouble was that science soon proved itself more attuned to the different and unfamiliar than did art. Perhaps in an unconscious response, artists (Capote, Mailer, et al.) became entertainers, and scientists took on the look of poets. There was poetry...
...gubment," or government, of Arkansas begins an upcoming legislative "spatial" (special) session called by Governor Bill Clinton, observers unfamiliar with Southern political dialect will have available the next best thing to simultaneous translation: a just published paperback of 35 uproarious pages titled The Southern Legislative Dictionary...
...addition be given one share in each of the seven regional operating companies for every ten shares of A T & T stock they have. Thus someone with 100 shares of AT&T, worth $6,675 last week, would acquire another ten shares each in new companies with such unfamiliar names as Pacific Telesis and Ameritech. Those with fewer than ten A T & T shares will be given cash instead of partial shares in the operating companies...