Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), Friday and Saturday...
...suppose anyone would dispute the claim that The Towering Inferno is popular art, so I'll defend my assertion that it's good art as well. One red herring--the director. Irwin Allen--needs to be disposed of right away. Auteurist orthodoxy is so much a part of the serious movie-goer's mental baggage that the idea of a good film being produced by an awful director seems a contradiction in terms. And Allen has compounded the problem by acting like some Cahiers du Cinema reader's idea of a Big Bad Hollywood Producer. Allen told the august Arts...
...Allen and his mediocrity were necessary for the success of The Towering Inferno. When good directors try to make uncomplicated popular movies, they are incapable of keeping a poker face about it. To paraphrase E.M. Forster, few directors can prostitute all their powers. Even when working on the lowest level, they are always implying they are capable of something higher...
Last fall his unorthodox position became well-known when he and two other professors. Stephen J. Gould and S. Allen Counter Jr., taught Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism." The course was modeled as closely as possible on the uniform-grade system that Lewontin has used in his other course. Biology 152, "Population Genetics," with a few concessions to those students who, Lewontin says, "through no fault of their own--for reasons of med school or law school-have...
...over the country. He's talking about the economy, and that's the only issue." Rockefeller took another big step toward conciliating the right a fortnight ago when he apologized to the Senate for any "discourtesy" he may have shown Alabama's Democratic Senator James B. Allen. Last February, while chairing the Senate, Rockefeller had angered conservatives by refusing to recognize Allen during debate of a rule change to limit filibustering (TIME, March 17). In the love fest that followed Rockefeller's apology, conservatives in both parties rose to extol the Vice President for his wisdom...