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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claims that the show is about America, not about the Soviet Union. "As a writer [Wrye] set out to write a fiction. It could just as well have been about lizards, except CBS did it already--it was called "V," said Butler...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Back in the U.S.S.A. | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...standing, because they did not want it to fall on the house." A pride of seven or eight lions lives on his spread. Hall says that the lions do not have a strong appetite for beef, and besides, if they should kill a cow, it is a tax write-off. Twenty years ago, he did have to shoot a lion, one that had killed 46 of his cows. The lion's skin hangs on the living-room wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...surprisingly the largest number of programs are the word processing packings; there are more than eight different ones available. Thus students can try out Microsoft Word, PC Write, Readwriter, Volkswriter and several others before deciding which...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Library Lets You Try Before You Buy | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...plays were as bad as Sweettable or End of the World, I would propose banning the profession and letting the blissfully nonsensical works of Robert Wilson rule the stage. Fortunately, the last of the ART's three American offerings will make you believe that people with functioning brains still write plays in this country. Don DeLillo's The Day Room, which premiered last spring as part of the ART's NewStages series at the Pudding, was revived last week for a limited run. While breaking no new dramatic ground, it fires off brilliant metaphysical gags at a pace that would...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, EDITOR EMERITUS | Title: STAGE | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

While I might conceivably write several dozen more lines correcting your editorial of 17 February, I hope that the point here has been made. In the interest of fairness, editorials must be written not on the basis of distorted perceptions of fact, but on the basis of the facts themselves. If the editorial staff must have its fits of forgetfulness for the sake of argument, it is crucial to remember one thing: there is a distinction between constructive criticism and pointless platitudes. Anyone can blurt out ill-informed aspersions about Council proposals. But designing well-thought-out alternative measures...

Author: By Richard S. Eisert, | Title: MAIL | 2/18/1987 | See Source »

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