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...lies in the journey. It is a trip of constantly shifting perceptions and sharply etched satirical sketches of movie types (the anxious writer, the stars in constant need of reassurances and some good lighting, the crew members variously laconic, envious and nymphomaniacal). It is also a carnival of bang-up stunt scenes. which Richard Rush presents with marvelous subtlety. They do not look like the finished product, but neither are they like raw footage: they have the half-polished air of a rough cut. Above all, there is Peter O'Toole, doing his John Huston imitation, but putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frosh Breeze | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...miles away] and go to church, and nobody knows anything about it." Billy is also a family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross of the family peanut business from $800,000 to $4 million plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...North Carolina whence the Taylors come (oh, alright, Chapel Hill) is better and earthier than his brother's, more into folklore and less into his navel. Judy Colline, who is appearing with him tonight at Lenox (7:30, tickets at Ticketron from $5.50 to $7:50), does a bang-up version of Dylan's "Daddy You've Been On My Mind," but her voice lamentably sounds like Lark cigarettes taste--sweet and syrupy And staler all the time...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Rock | 7/29/1975 | See Source »

Hall, who mentioned that the International Center is doing up a "bang-up job," said that he found out it existed only two months...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Day-Care Center Faces Shut-Down; Seeks Harvard Aid | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

Also in the bullpen are Sandy Weissant, who has lost only once in college ball; Barry Malinowski, the Crimson fireballer; Mike Holt, who has had a sore arm recently, but who did a bang-up job earlier in the year; and Keith Schappert, another key relief man for Harvard...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Batmen Head to College World Series | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

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