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...This part of the film, at least, is fairly realistic. Big-time college sports are really professional sports in the guise of amateur athletics, and survival is dependent on both talent and an ability to accept a system that reduces athletes to little more than meat on the hoof, brainless creatures expected to deliver on the field and shut up, letting the athletic department worry about everything else, including the business of their education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exposing Intercollegiate Sports | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...rigid dictates of regency fashion. Elderly female relatives are constantly shocked at the heroine's outspokenness, and make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper about in absurd clothes, worrying only about the make of their Hessians and the height of their collars. Brainless beauties fall desperately in love with ineligible fortune hunters and threaten to elope across the border to Scotland in the face of their family's disapproval. These other, less competent characters make Heyer's novels witty, as well as sentimental--they are constantly embroiling themselves in absurd engagements to avoid...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Heyer and Heyer | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

...piece of dotty, slightly paranoid intrigue. Three Days of the Condor promises little and keeps its word. It is hard to get indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Empty Vehicle | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...Carvalho the fastest rising star in Portugal. Still, he has his detractors. Spínola is reported to have once said that Saraiva de Carvalho "should never have got above sergeant." Many Portuguese regard him as a not-too-bright, womanizing playboy-hence his unflattering sobriquet "O tolo" (the brainless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Cork, the Ideologue, the Playboy | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...year when women are trying valiantly to assert themselves as intelligent leaders of society, political thinkers, educational reformers, etc., I find it disheartening to discover once more a TIME cover depicting the beautifully brainless. Why don't you put Miss America on your next cover and install Bert Parks on your board of directors? Okeydoke, artichoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jul. 7, 1975 | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

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