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...smallish garrison of redcoats, a brace of cameo parts (filled, with steely and rather contemptuous panache, by Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud), one or two sexual objects, a Napoleon, some rocks for the escape attempt and a sunset or two to be glowered at from cliff tops. Once these were assembled, Director Fielder Cook's imagination was set free to contemplate the psychology of the trapped Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Historical Stuffing | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

LENNY. More masochist than martyr, pornocratic Lenny Bruce nonetheless mainlined some painful truths into the U.S. psyche. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a herculean performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: 1971's Ten Best Plays | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...kite, he is only too happy to oblige. He flies over them in a delta winged kite that looks like a large version of a child's paper dart. "My family all think I'm nuts," he admits, "but this kite flying, launching yourself off a cliff into a breeze, has got to be the most satisfying thing ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Taking a Flyer | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...didn't convert in the first half, that was the key to the game," Brown coach Cliff Stephenson said. "We outplayed them in the second quarter but it was just a question of our forwards not capitalizing on some openings...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Booters Top Brown in Second Half, 3-0 | 11/30/1971 | See Source »

...That is pain distilled into compassion, a special gift of David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David's younger brother Rick (Cliff DeYoung) pops in and out of the house with a vacuous "Hi Mom, hi Dad; bye Mom, bye Dad" that might be a recorded announcement. At the still center of this air-conditioned hell stands David, graver than a Greek chorus in his comments, with the memory-made-visible of the Vietnamese girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Air-Conditioned Hell | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

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