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Without pausing to change sticks, Mi-kita continued playing and to his sur prise found that he could rip off a shot faster and harder with his crooked cud gel. Soon he and Teammate Bobby Hull were warping the wooden blades of their sticks into scooplike curves by soaking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey: Day of the Banana Stick | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Along the way, Rachel falls in with a crooked straight man (Jason Robards) and a doleful comic (Norman Wisdom). The casting could not be bettered., Robards' crumpled countenance and larcenous glint make him the quintessential backstage villain. Wisdom, long a British stage star, recalls Keaton in his split-second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: That Was Burlesque | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

This highly polished piece of cop art emphatically watches a lone lieutenant playing it straight in a crooked world. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), of the San Francisco police force, is assigned to keep a state's witness alive and soon finds himself wallowing in other people's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Cop Art | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

The landlord, in turn, is shot down by a crooked cop (Gene Hackman), who makes off with the money but later joins forces with Brown to shoot it out with the accomplices. Naturally, the accomplices all die, and the cop becomes a hero. As for good old Jimmy Brown, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lining Up the Buck | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Rock eats its young. Ginger Baker is like a beast from another world, a world of pressed rats, warthogs and toads. The controlled madness of his rhythm is responsible for the group's incessant drive. Ginger Baker must have the world's fastest right hand, left hand, right foot and...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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