Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn's record is currently 16-4, with two of its losses against top 20 teams. Georgetown edged the Quakers by only two points in their contest; and 14th-ranked Iowa, one of the Big Ten leaders, narrowly defeated Penn in double overtime at the San Diego Classic. PENN 86, HARVARD 77 at the Palestra HARVARD Player FG FT Reb. A PF TP Harris 8-11 3-3 4 0 4 19 Hooft 0-4 3-4 9 1 4 3 Fleming 8-19 9-16 8 3 3 25 Allen 6-10 2-2 3 3 1 14 Fine...
...minister's resistance has produced one of those classic confrontations between conscience and the forces of law and order. Although the prosecutors are embarrassed by McCrackin's acts, they have argued in court that simply to release him would "destroy the foundation and value of giving a judge authority to compel testimony...
...Sexes (CBS). The victory would be just, for the last two hours of Roots: The Next Generations are about as good as television gets. Besides containing the 8½-minute Brando-Jones confrontation, this segment recounts Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on the Black Muslim's classic autobiography. As played by Al Freeman Jr. and written (in nine drafts) by Kinoy, Malcolm is the first black radical ever to be portrayed as an intelligent, three-dimensional character on television...
...obvious: Grand Rapids family life and California street life confront one another on the screen. His device is too simple, and the extreme images have no force. The director's lack of involvement with the film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle-class moral outrage--to make a cheap show with a tantalizing title that offends no one because it goes nowhere. For his next trick, Schrader has signed John Travolta to play in American Gigolo...
...himself, which includes his first Hollywood screen test, an appearance on the Milton Berle show and the great title number from Jailhouse Rock. In Elvis!, directed by John Carpenter and written by Anthony Lawrence, he is also treated well but the shadows deepen even further. He becomes the classic figure of American success: famous, frightened and mother-fixated. The movie catches Presley's suicidal insulation, the shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success seem ultimately stultifying without ever inviting pity. Just as important, he is not treated either as a cultural icon...