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The Clown's Evening, Bergman's first masterpiece, sums up attitudes Bergman had suggested in his films of the preceding three years. During the course of a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each betray the...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Bergman's Best | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

He also gives us men and women and families conceiving their own private truces with the world in order that they may continue to grow past adolescence. Those critics who claim they find no love in Updike can't be looking very carefully; though he can playfully delineate the exaggerated...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist As An Adult | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

I would like to correct some rather serious misquotations which appeared in year story about me in today's issue of The Crimson. I am sorry that they are so numerous, since I enjoyed talking with your reporter and did not anticipate such confusions. First of all, the anecdote concerning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUSSBAUM AND THE FELLOWS | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Angry Wolves. One of the gut issues continues to be white-collar jobs for project residents. Dr. Jack Geiger, the center's creator, points out that pumping large amounts of cash-the current budget is $1.4 million-into a desperately poor area is risky. "It's like throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Siege at Columbia Point | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Rafelson and Scenarist Brackman understand their two played-out heroes without ever condescending to them, although both writer and director are often guilty of using the same kind of tin-ear dialogue and trite image that David himself might employ in one of his tortuous monologues. One of Rafelson'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Dreams | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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