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Although no one in the world community doubts the contributions of the U.N.'s humanitarian agencies, the U.N. can never fulfill its peace-keeping role as long as it is merely a collection of sovereign nations subject to big power veto -which is what it obviously is destined to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The U.N. Delusion | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Kristofferson, himself something of a rock star, eases through his first dramatic role in sleepy, sardonic style. Karen Black has played her part, or a slight variation on it, so many times before that even her presence is a cliche. Gene Hackman's psychopathic cop, already on view in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scuffling on the Fringes | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

Soon after writing this declaration lonesco began what became his great life work. Present Past Past Present is the unattractive side of Ionesco's genius. His hate for the totalitarians of left and right, his loathing of fad and cliche, his nearly total despair, are monotonously gone into. Even his...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Present Past, Past Present | 11/24/1971 | See Source »

Couple No. 2 (Christian Holder and Rebecca Wright), in revealing skin-toned body suits that appear to have been glued on, carry out a lyrical sequence of serpentine, limb-entangling maneuvers that resemble moving illustrations for a graduate course in the Kamasutra. The third duo (Susan Magno and Tony Catanzaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love on the Rock | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

The road that led Albert Bradford to the joint is a familiar one--so familiar that it would be a cliche if it were not for the fact that it continues to be a main artery to a dead end for people born poor and-or black in America. "By...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Condemned King Held in the Tower | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

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