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Valdei Is Coming offers little besides its star. Continual editorials about racism give the film contrived relevance. Edwin Sherin's direction may best be described as functional: the members of the cast do not bump into each other. Still, the late Frank Silvera provides a poignant closeup of a peasant with aristocratic sensibility. The rest of the hard-nosed crew are sufficiently malignant to villainize five spaghetti westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burt Force | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...around a Styrofoam letter J. Each one repeats, "J," until the object reaches Cookie Monster. He booms: "D." The cast choruses: "D?" Monster: "Licious!" And he eats it. Guest teachers drop in all the time. Laugh-ln's Arte Johnson, in his traditional German helmet, discusses height: "Tall people bump their heads a lot and short people don't." Carol Burnett describes the various virtues of the nose, forgets one, and then remembers­just in time to sneeze. James Earl Jones recites the alphabet­so slowly that the kids impatiently shout the letters at the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Harvard-What?" This is not only the title of the OG and CP's thoroughly incomprehensible guide to the real world, but perhaps the only question that most seniors have not yet learned to bullshit their way out of. Oh, there are the cute answers we give when we bump into each other on Mass. Ave.: answers like "After Harvard-Money" or "After Harvard-Not Much" or "After Harvard-Fuck" or "After Harvard-Librium." But few have any real answers these days and a lot of people are beginning to realize that to be a senior is to be lost...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Autumn After Harvard-What? | 9/30/1970 | See Source »

...enemy pilots. One thing you can't forget is that there is a quarter of a ton of TNT coming at you. Even if it doesn't hit you, it can get you if it explodes near enough. Even at a distance, you can feel a harsh bump, and the entire plane rocks when it explodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What It's Like To Face Tilim | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...jungle, and carry around Valley of the Dolls. (imagine 900 pages of Jaqueline Susan), in the hope that some man will walk up to them and say. "Wow, you're reading that too. huh? Where do you want to go for lunch?" I guess you just don't accidentally bump into someone twice in New York...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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