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SPORTS. Investors in the new World Football League, World Hockey Association and World Team Tennis franchises are drowning in red ink. "It's hard to get people to back up struggling franchises now," says Boston Sports Attorney Bob Woolf, and TV networks no longer bail out new leagues with-fat broadcast contracts. Even long-established leagues are suffering: a majority of the National Basketball Association's 18 teams are losing money. Once unobtainable, tickets to New York Knicks games against N.B.A. opponents are suddenly easier to get now that inflation has driven Madison Square Garden ticket prices...
Middle age assumes a more engaging aspect for the women who damn the conventions of their male oppressors in a bid for a more human reality. In the section entitled Work, Virginia Woolf writes...
...sort of drama that shoots adrenaline into people's tongues and makes ticket scalpers' fingers itch in anticipation. T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party was just such a play. So was J.B. and A Man for All Seasons and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? These plays have one thing in common. They roar through an evening with blazing dramatic pyrotechnics. On the following dawn, the embers of their dubious intellectual premises will scarcely bear analysis...
...England, something had been lost by the war. While Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence attempted to find the essence of an England that was fearfully "contemplating its own past and conscious of its threatened nature," Spender himself was fighting a political and intellectual conservatism that had bred a neurotic fear of change, fiercely inhibiting literary progress...
...must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance on talking heads will...