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...more oil and gas properties without running afoul of antitrust laws. At the same time, oil companies' investments outside of natural minerals have often been bummers. Exxon has reportedly lost heavily on its venture into office equipment, and Mobil has been forced to pump millions into the Montgomery Ward retail chain that it bought in 1976. Moreover, natural resources look like a smart investment. President Reagan's pledge to increase defense spending should increase the demand for strategic materials. The stocks of many mining companies are currently depressed and thus are a good...
...corporate underwriters like the big oil companies say they are giving as much as they can. "Pay public television is unquestionably going to happen," says Tony Tiano, general manager of San Francisco's KQED. "And it's going to happen sooner rather than later." Says Ward Chamberlin, president of Washington's WETA: "The Reagan cuts are a sign that we had damned well better get ready to be self-reliant...
...SHORT, THERE'S too much cardboard here, and not enough flesh and blood. A symbol only becomes significant in its power to move masses, but Ward's symbols are devoid of that power. Too often long speeches only rework cliches or lapse into sententiousness. Eager to stress the rift between the revolutionaries and the church, Ward sacrifices the richness of characters and motives to emphasize their polarization...
...Time of Fire works best when it starts to break away from such stereotyped roles and speeches to show the feelings of the people caught between the symbols. Through minor characters and incidental lines Ward manages to give her play some needed depth. The eagerness of a 12-year-old soldier (Stephen Keeler) complements the world-weary cynicism of an old man (played with nice touches of irony by Jeremy Rabinovitz) and the equally cynical pilfering of a surly revolutionary soldier (Brad Blumenthal...
...WARD HAS OBVIOUSLY TRIED to highlight the relations and motivations of a people acting within a framework of terror and bloodshed without concentrating on that terror itself. However the absence of vivid oppression not only devalues the pivotal motives of the revolutionaries, but also perhaps overemphasizes their conflict with the church and obscures the injustices which drove them into opposition. With the Guardia to catalyse and focus the people's anger it is hard to appreciate the bonds between the people and the revolutionaries they support...