Word: recaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initial press run of 416,000 copies was quickly claimed a sellout, but some London journalists, while wishing it well, were saying Now! should more accurately be called Then! Aside from a scoop about Iraqi spying, the only effort at hard news was a watery recap of the Rhodesian peace talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what the first issue is not. It is a feature magazine, and not an especially good one at that." Said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans: "There is less of a feeling of a window on the world than TIME or ... various British...
...playlets are quite dreary. In the weakest, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby appear as vacationing Chicago doctors whose Los Angeles visit is ruined by slapstick mishaps involving torn clothing and wayward automobiles. It is a thin recap of an old Simon screenplay, The Out-of-Towners. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda fare only slightly better in their sketch. She plays a tart-tongued Newsweek editor who has flown West to fight with her ex-husband over the custody of their daughter...
THERE are bright spots enough to keep one awake--barely, there is no doubt that the cast deserves an A for effort. But while the play tries to capture the essence of some of the greatest moral and political dilemmas of the century and simultaneously recap some of Brazil's recent history, the audience is expected to sit still for a good two hours or more...
Sure, sure. Sam's was your basic recap, but now Frayud, he went off chasin' the CIA because Sam's side was doing such a fine job of linking the White House and CREEP and the Cubans and all, Frayud wanted to pull a wounded...
...representatives have asked the critics not to reveal the plot, but this seems rather silly--Deathtrap is tricky in a very predictable way. One has little chance to be confused: Bruhl constantly discusses the theatrical potential of the murders he commits, and ten lines rarely pass without a plot recap. It's rather like the old math problem about the frog in the slippery well who cannot jump three feet without falling back two. In addition, Levin makes his characters as self-conscious as his playwrighting. "Nothing recedes like success," quips Bruhl, and is so taken with the phrase that...