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...agree. He looks as if he would like to kill somebody, very possibly Maclean or Director Gries - the former for penning him up with this bunch of bores, the latter for never finding some visually interesting way to cut through the excessively intricate plot After a lot of witless blather, it turns out that Bronson was only pretending to be a baddie - big surprise! - that he is really a federal agent in disguise. Naturally it also turns out that just about everyone left alive in that plush car when the Indians finally get around to attacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stalled Express | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Melodramatic and sentimental, the play fans simple thoughts into pseudopoetic blather, but the characters, especially those played by Ryan and Costigan, are piercingly true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sarasota Jewel Box | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Although his audience probably expected the blather that educators prefer to hide behind, Rosovsky instead proceeded to announce a move that stands today as one of the most prominent decisions of his two - and - one - half-year tenure: "I think that Harvard College needs a new Redbook. It is time to reestablish a consensus that will last another 20 years." The comment by the Japanese - economics - professor - turned - dean, stated in a level, dispassionate voice, meant little or nothing to students gathered in the lofty dining hall. But it set off a wholesale review of undergraduate education that is just...

Author: By Nicole Seligman and Charles E. Shepard, S | Title: The Task Forces Teeter Along | 3/2/1976 | See Source »

...Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer. 252 pages. Viking. $7.95. "Compassion's like masturbation. Doesn't do anybody else any harm and if it makes you feel any better ..." If Mehring were simply the small-Boer caricature suggested by such blather, The Conservationist would be a cheap shot indeed. Instead, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 51, makes him a human and nuanced advocate of the very thing her ten previous books opposed: the white-supremacist policy of apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...blather about 'responsibility' to keep secrets instead of exploding abuses has begun to creep back into the press parlance," he wrote, citing "the old pre-Watergate, pre-Vietnam ideals of partnership with government...of a camaraderie of secrets shared by this peerage but kept from the public...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: It's All in the Family | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

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