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One day Finny falls from the tree and breaks his leg. Gene spends the rest of the movie consumed by guilt. Did he shake the branch to make his friend fall because of Pinny's unrelenting competitiveness? Or to still a growing homosexual affection? In any case, the terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Ties | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Jaimie (Scott Jacoby) is a ten-year-old kid with a chart-shattering IQ who nurtures a selfish affection for his mother and yearns for his deceased father, a TIME editor who had always wanted to write a novel. Jaimie's mother Christine (Joan Hackett) makes quite a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Psychology Lesson | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

As Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Chauvinist | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Miss Frame's persistent themes are loneliness, madness and death. But again, as in dreams, distinctions dissolve and the themes can be interchangeable. In Daughter Buffalo, billed as her first novel with an American setting, even the characters seem to blur into each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Be Prepared | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

However contrived and unspontaneous most of the time, the convention showed signs of genuine affection for the President, who had good reason to grin and enjoy one of his happier hours in a career of many political vicissitudes. Nixon shared some of the lighter moments with an ebullient Sammy Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: A New Majority for Four More Years? | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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