Word: cons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This immediacy is the vehicle for his full-bodied human landscapes. In the prairielands of Kansas or Texas Bogdanovich creates characters who set out to realize their wildest dreams, whether they be beautiful women or perfect con-games. They don't realize them, but in the process achieve a personal authenticity more important than their dreams. What good is a bulging wallet anyway? They ramble across barren countryside, hands in their pockets, eyes to the ground, finding what they never looked for, contented all the same. He breaks down their myths, without making anybody lose...
Philip Kerr, with long-flowing locks and rich red garb, looks the proper--or, rather, improper--libertine. Wycherley made his Horner an allegro con brio role. Kerr plays it allegro all right, but his portrayal needs more brio. Still, he speaks crisply, and handles his walking-stick as though born with...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
...Sank. The Rock Pile. Hamburger Hill. Con Thien. The faint echoes of these and other bloody battles of the Indochina war rumble across I Corps,* the northernmost military region of South Viet Nam. During last year's Easter offensive, the Communists captured most of the area; today it is the scene of a curious military standoff. Recently TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited I Corps-officially known as Military Region I-and cabled this report...