Word: drama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lyric short stories and novels, Singer's prose is suffused with drama. In the theater, his work becomes prosaic. The notion of a girl deceived by a man who does not change his costume or his appearance demands a magic that neither the manic cast nor Director Stephen Kanee can sustain. For this tenuous fantasy, an entertainment tax is difficult enough. A credulity tax is insupportable. - Stefan Kanfer
...weeks ago, the plan to get observers in to see the hostages evolved and step by step the pressure of opinion and appeal was orchestrated. The White House kept trying and finally found another haven for the Shah. There will be new twists and turns in this sad drama, but at the moment there is a sense that the White House has discovered it is leading a great power instead of a religious revival. The nation feels...
...doomed family. George, the eldest, was killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama, his book becomes a psychological thriller. The biographer's own style is self-effacing, and he is content to let the characters tell much of their history in let ters. But such reticence does not obscure the fact that J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys is one of the year...
...Nazis herded countless thousands of homosexuals into concentration camps. They were regarded as degenerates, polluting the purity of Aryan blood. That is the documentary origin of this gritty, powerful and compassionate drama...
...number of TV sets are in use. With the powerhouse 60 Minutes as a lead-in, such tired CBS sitcoms as Archie Bunker's Place, One Day at a Time, Alice and The Jeffersons are consistently near the top of the Nielsens. Trapper John, M.D., a dim hospital drama, is the season's biggest new hit, mainly because it caps CBS's winning Sunday lineup. CBS has shown other new signs of life: modestly successful shows like Dallas, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard have started to build big audiences...