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The whole scene is so bizarre as to seem almost unreal. Palestinian terrorists are actually trying to kill me, and yet I am unable to get angry or even upset about it. The rockets are exploding around me, and yet it is somehow still so impersonal that it is almost...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Life Within the Bunker | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

Saturday Night Fever. Since a major national magazine recently ran a cover piece on the Vietnamization of Hollywood, maybe a free-lancing stargazer somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

At least Casson managed to fuse dramatic nuance and expressive gesture into an integrated whole. Holly Whipple's glib "In Sequins and Out," on the other hand, merely manipulated surfaces, whether of theatrical convention or of psychological cliche. The plot was straight out of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," predictable from...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: More Than a Theory | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

It would be the easy way out (for a reporter who spends more time at Charlie's Kitchen than along the banks of the river of the same name) to describe the Radcliffe heavyweight crew squad's eight-second loss to a vastly improved Princeton squad with the cliche "what...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Tigers Play the Heavies In Victory Over 'Cliffe | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

THIS YEAR'S installment of America's oldest ongoing response to Kabuki featured the usual raft of pretty boys in leotards, tennis-ball halves and wigs, playing pretty girls with puns instead of names ("Jemima Fysmoke," "Cybil Service"), whose stock-in-trade is the Big Pun ("You made an asteroid...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

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