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Sir / The American people should now realize to whom they owe a debt of gratitude for whatever morality is left in official life. If the press ever allows itself to be stifled by a cunning President or his overzealous staff, we, the people, will be the only ones to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1973 | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ryan's Daughter | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Craig's women are portrayed as cunning, deceitful and expendable. Leave them for a few hours and they feel they have been deserted. Craig likes to drop big names, from Bobby Kennedy to Ingmar Bergman. At one point, who should appear in a Cannes restaurant but Pablo Picasso, "bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Kid Blue is a quirkish, laid-back, jolly film, rich in resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperado for Hire | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

Lancaster, always good at playing brashness, was never an actor to show much warmth. His role in Scorpio-a double agent on the run from both East and West-gives him a chance to project the kind of dead-eyed savagery he has nearly patented as his own. He has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Sign | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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