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From: jimc@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: TESTAMENT
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 23:51:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 23:51:57 1985
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Nf-From: haddock!jimc    Mar  7 13:29:00 1985

Just a tid-bit:  *The Fate of the Earth* was written by Jonathan Schell,
a magazine columnist who I believe has done work for New York Magazine.

I agree with your assessment of *Testament*; I thought the acting 
was marvelous (particularly Jane Alexander's performance), but it 
just didn't show enough destruction to accurately reflect the 
nightmare of nuclear war.  Also, some of the dialogue was sappy 
and unbelievable ("Your children are not dead; they have simply 
gone away until the world deserves them").  Still, I suppose that
if nuclear war were accurately portrayed, there would be no story 
or drama, just death and dying in its many ghastly forms.

				Jim Campbell