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...PLAY'S CONVOLUTED DECEPTIONS sometimes surpass the cast's abilities. Curt Dawson's Tindle cannot maintain the timing and exuberance necessary to keep the robbery interesting, nor does he ever realize the vengeful anger his part demands. An incongruous airiness in Dawson's voice and the stiffness of his movements force Allinson to provide all the game's vitality, but it is difficult for him to do it all alone. Similarly Philip Farrar's Detective Doppler is lugubrious and meticulous without being convincing...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...year Grass again took to the roads in a Volkswagen bus, speaking to as many as four or five rallies a day, and often attracting bigger crowds than the party candidates. Brandt also had the notable support of Nobel-prize-winning Novelist Heinrich Böll and Film Stars Curt Jurgens and Romy Schneider, while the Free Democrats were endorsed by Swiss Playwright Rolf Hochhuth and Actor Hardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Chancellor Willy Wins Again | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Super Fly. The best of the black superhero flicks (that's not saying much). Ron O'Neal plays Priest, a young Harlem coke-pusher who wants to get out of his trade. Gripping, and sociologically interesting though Curt Mayfield's music is the best thing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston | 9/28/1972 | See Source »

Assistant U.S. Attorney Warren P. Reese, the chief prosecutor in the Boston investigation, issued a curt "no comment" when asked what was taking so much time...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Life in Cambridge Went On Without You | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...derelict in the stream of law." Said Justice Thurgood Marshall: "We do not lightly overrule our prior constructions of federal statutes, but when our errors deny substantial federal rights... we must admit our error and correct it." The rights involved were those of former St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Curt Flood. He had charged that baseball's "reserve clause," which binds all players to the teams that own their contracts, prevented him from freely marketing his services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Safe--Kind of | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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