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The experiment worked for the most part. MacMillan helped the stickwomen force the play into the Quakers' end, but Martin's speed was sorely missed up front.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Shine, Quiet Quakers, 2-1 | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

The fire, described in wonderfully horrific narrative slow motion, is not the climax but the ignition point of Endless Love. The night of the fire, Jade and her family, the Butterfields, are performing a countercultural experiment and become paralyzed by LSD; David rushes in to save them. But his passionate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Young love is a fanaticism inhabiting a region somewhere between the silly and the metaphysical. Scott Spencer understands the territory well: its shimmering landscapes, its enclosing solipsism, the profound and dippy magic by which children suddenly acquire passion. In Endless Love, the mother of one such adolescent says in rueful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...This is the one place at Harvard where you can learn how to act, so it's as if I've been denied admission to a class because I'm black. It seems that blacks here can only perform in experimental productions or in Black CAST--and I'm tired of being an experiment. Realism can go to hell as long as I'm paying $9000 a year to go here...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: All in the Family | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

The launching of the schooner John F. Leavitt was not a sentimental return to the past. It was an experiment to see if perchance the past has a future-and will work. In a sense "that Ackerman boy," who turns out to be Edward Arthur ("Ned") Ackerman, a bearded, moderately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Bold Launching into the Past | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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