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...Theater Production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a shining exception to this rule. Director Alan W. Mianulli has taken full advantage of the talents of his cast and crew to create a living production that completely avoids stereotype. Mianulli has refused to allow his production to wallow in the swamp of bitter recrimination and contempt. And although feelings of bitterness just out unobscured. Mianulli has injected a measure of compassion to smooth the jagged edges...

Author: By Amy R. Gutman, | Title: Treading the Fine Line Between Illusion and Reality | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...stand a chance with this cardboard American morality play, Dark of the Moon. Not a chance, "I reckon" (to quote the pet phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might have done. But what a stupid story...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...from the real world. The rush, whir and clatter of cooling units annoys others. There are even a few eccentrics who object to man-made cool simply because they like hot weather. Still, the overwhelming majority of Americans have taken to air conditioning like hogs to a wet wallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great American Cooling Machine | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Americans are hung up on success. Now, after losing our first war, we say that losers must be wrong-hence our continued tendency to wallow in guilt. The humbling Viet Nam experience might be the lesson that teaches it is possible to lose, as we did, and at the same time be the good guys, as we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...implicated in this evil, too. The message implicit in all this is that since you inevitably get a little dirt on your hands while walking through the garden, you might as well throw youself completely into the mud. Maybe so, President Bok, but do we have to wallow in it so much...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Naming the Hand That Feeds | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

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