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...good guy is a dog, Max's gray-eyed mutt companion, fearless and faithful. Another one literally erupts out of the earth. This is Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence), a deranged parody of the World War I aerial ace: scarecrow skinny, gaily clad, sporting a James Coburn smile with advanced caries. This would-be gallant is given to abrupt whinnies and wistful meditations on the good old days: "Remember lingerie?" The refiners are led by Pappagallo (Mike Preston), who carries the weight of his predicament with swaggering dignity, and Feral Kid (Emil Minty), an eight-year-old who growls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apocalypse... Pow! | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...ANOTHER CHANNEL, a blue cross rises against a carefully arranged background of metal streaks meant to represent light. Three adorable blond children clad in Lacoste shirts stand in front of it. The program is ending, and after a short pitch for contributions, it is back to the Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Tournament...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Our Lady of the Country Club | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

Taylor has always tested limits. Older pieces (going back as far as 1956) included in the current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Tolkien of Choreographers | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day... I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Tales of Distress | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

There is a good side and a bad side to the dozens and dozens of suntanners, bikini-clad and oiled, who crowded Boston University's Nickerson Track yesterday during the final day of the women's Greater Boston Track and Field Championships. The good side is that it was the largest number of spectators to grace a women's track meet all year. The bad side is that only sporadically did the intent ray-catchers take note of the races going on around them--so much so that the officials had to ask them to turn the music down when...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Women Harriers Nab GBC's | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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