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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The films are all but indistinguishable-we come away with a memory of one or two good jokes, but people don't remember Woody Allen jokes. Because Monty Python, like anything surrealistic, depends on the realism it parodies; it takes not of the world outside and (ab)uses it. Whereas...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Allen's private life is a taboo, reserved for the absent analyst, though the films are about him and intend us to imagine his complex 'interiority.' He's quite unable to imagine other people fully, as sufferers through the unspeakable Interiors will know. In Manhattan, though, he winningly has his...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

AND NOT JUST IN the movie theatres. He's reached the course directories, too, and now the bookshops display a new-spawned product of academia, Loser Takes All by Maurice Yacowar of Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

BLUEBONNET BOWL: Purdue (9-2) vs. Tennessee (7-4)--Sorry, Wilson Schlichter, McDonald et al., but Purdue's Mark Herrmann is the best quarterback in the country. The Vols are a strong 7-4, but any 9-2 Big Ten team can whip a 7-4 SEC team, Johny Majors...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Bowling for Scholars | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Forwards: Led by Sara Fischer (last year, 7 goals-16 assists-23 points) and co-captain Firkins Reed (last year 5-7-12), the returnees are bolstered by a skilled contingent of freshmen, including Alex Lightfoot, Vicki Palmer, Rosemary Mahoney and Amy Spalding.

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Get Out Your Bluebooks | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

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