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...Jane (and Billy for their child, Spot for their dog), Richler intends to present a typical family. At one point, Dick shouts that he won't be destroyed, because he represents the American middle class. But this conception of the middle class appears ludicrous, unless Richler wishes to depict the average Beverly Hills household, replete with swimming pool and cabana. It's difficult to sympathize with people who pilfer only to live in opulence and to keep up with the Joneses...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: See Spot Steal | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...acquire this pass (redeemable weekdays at 1 or 2 p.m.), go to the Museum of Science where, through January 23, over 300 watercolors by Olemara and Verda Peters depict the Tribal Peoples and Costumes of Southern Africa, including displays of tribal artifacts...

Author: By Lester F. Greenspan, | Title: GALLERIES | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

Seoul's articles meanwhile thrust toward the day's light a third apparition: that Korea's controlled media might subtly or overtly depict Harvard as supportive of the Park regime against its opponents, democratic-minded intellectuals. Since it prints no criticism and all Koreans read Soviet-fashion between the lines, Seoul can do this simply by printing photographs of a smiling Harvard President visiting Seoul officials, as President Bok is about to do. Harvard seems not to have armed itself against this: no attempt to counteract the public statements about the University in the March 1975 articles has ever been...

Author: By Gregory Henderson, | Title: Harvard's Korean Grant: Dreams of Reason and Spectres | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...brutalized as it is presented to us on TV. There is a substantial thing called America with a very complicated, pluralistic society that is worth honest presentation. If I were in charge of a network, I would insist that one-third, at least, of prime time be used to depict that, whether people watch it or not, because some people will watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Chayefsky: 'Network Is True' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

This is getting out of hand. For two weeks in a row [Oct. 25; Nov. 1], you have seen fit to depict prehensile appendages-the hands of man and beast-on your illustrious cover. Does this mean that the coveted Man of the Year award might perchance be replaced by an analogous honor for "Hand of the Year"? If so, I cast my vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 22, 1976 | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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