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Word: allene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more reminiscent of Allen Drury than John Dos Passes, it does present a complex narrative with surprising clarity. The Washington settings, from the Oval Office to the Georgetown salons, lend a nice air of authenticity. So do the script's lavish accounts of such Watergate minutiae as H.R. Haldeman's feud with Rose Mary Woods and Gordon Liddy's call-girl schemes. The heaps of dirt stuffed into the show amply convey the moral squalor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High Soap Opera in D.C. | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...always accompanied by beautiful women, he retorted, "They're very useful at night and frequently during the day." When being wooed by a club, he sniped, "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me for a member." Observed Steve Allen: "You can start laughing at Groucho when you're very young, and never stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1977 | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...found in King Tut's tomb, but settled for a necklace once owned by Sarah Bernhardt. She will wear the jewels and an elaborate headdress in her role as Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile, in the Broadway-bound play of the same name. Marcovicci-best known as Woody Allen's girl friend in The Front-admires the strong-willed wife of King Akhenaten. "I like to play women who want something for themselves and will fight for it," says Andrea. To pre pare for her role, she spent hours in the Egyptian collection at Manhattan's Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1977 | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Directed by MARTY FELDMAN Screenplay by MARTY FELDMAN and CHRIS ALLEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heat Prostration | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Even so, there are enough imaginative gags and such a pleasantly adoles cent spirit about the film as to warrant looking in on it some hot summer's night. It is to be hoped, though, that Feldman - and everybody else - will follow Woody Allen's lead, give up parodies of popular cultural forms and turn their attention, in the manner of Annie Hall, to life itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heat Prostration | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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