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Now for the good part: Pryor is splendidly funny. When the agribiz company transfers him back to his home town-by now he's an exec in a three-piece suit-he sets up his mistress and their baby on one side of town and lives with his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Flickin' | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the cinematography does not improve with the acting. Darling, who is accustomed to television, rarely experiments with interesting angles, and this adds to the film's blandness. In some scenes, the camera is filtered to produce a soft, hazy ambience in an attempt to accentuate the romantic elements. The...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

The trend could hardly have surprised anyone attentive to the more visible facts of 1977. City dwellers are still accustomed to seeing office buildings lit up long after the workers have gone home. Luxury-loving Americans are constantly raising their purchases and use of electrical appliances. Indeed, demands for electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Going Our Own Way | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

The criticism fails to shake Berger, now 76 and recently retired as a senior fellow in legal history at Harvard. "I've been accustomed to swimming upstream a good deal of my life," he says. Berger concedes it would be "utterly unrealistic" to expect the Supreme Court to reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Fie on the 14th | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

When he arrived in Cambridge, Makavejev was quite surprised to find that his films were not well-known. At Berkeley, his student audiences prac-films. Harvard has not single established method of with the inevitable frustrations of teaching after having grown accustomed to independent artistry. If he gets enough feedback...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Dusan Makavejev: A Film-maker Teaches Film | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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