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All praise to Wayne Fitzgerald and David Oliver, who devised this witty, vivacious credit sequence, and to Dolly Parton for composing and singing the title song. Alas, it consumes only 2½ minutes of Colin Higgins' slapstick sermon on job equality. The rest of the film is misjudged and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stenos, Anyone? | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

But no cadaver should ever endure what Sellars does to the Dogberry/Verges scenes--his chopping reduces them from a major element of the play's structure to mere comic relief. It's tempting to look at them that way, of course, and in the uncut script their scenes do go...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

The achievement of Taylor and his colleagues, Peter M. McCulloch and Lee A. Fowler, was a triumph of radio astronomy. In 1974, while scanning the heavens with the giant bowl-shaped radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the researchers detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Wave | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

A chronological response: 1) A "cow pasture"? Mike, my friend, did you really see any cows? Really? No, I'm not talking about the cattle on the football field. Mike, buddy, do you know what a cow looks like? No, I don't care about seeing a picture of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kangaroo Court | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

INES DE CASTRO. This is the twelfth opera by the New York-born composer Thomas Pasatieri, 30; most of them have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three for the Opera | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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