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...scanty costume in The Life of Jesus. "But I'd rather wear diapers than nothing. I'm not very decorative anyway." Cast as a hefty King Herod by Director Franco Zeffirelli, Ustinov makes his biggest splash when he drops by the Roman baths for a dip with his fellow dignitaries. "Romans talk more freely in the bath," quipped the actor, adding that his watery scene was "not long enough for me to catch a cold." The movie, which features Olivia Hussey as the Virgin Mary, Robert Powell as Christ, and James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...build a student center there, but the land is much too small for anything of that size. And it does, make a pleasant garden--many of the liberators' comments Sunday centered on the nice job the Fly Club has done on upkeep. When one frisbee player suggested a slight dip in the ground was dangerous, another responded, "But it's perfect for croquet...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Over the Top at the Fly | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

...sketches the self-cannibalizing character of urban growth. There is no scene in the movie which doesn't reek of the Noah Cross character's scent. If there's any weak spoke, it's the banality of the "Chinatown" theme, which never really rings true. Nicholson, it seems, can dip endlessly into some well of inventiveness and charm and never scrape. His J.J. Gittes destroys and transcends the romantic stereotype of the hard-boiled dick; the more he learns about power relations, the less he finds himself able to do about them. The movie is a wonder--it ought...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, Peter Kaplan, and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

Save for this pale ghost, Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) have no competition in this film. Perhaps that made the director over-confident. No attempt is made to dip beneath the surface of these men or their relationship, and, perhaps, there is nothing beneath the surface. But we never really know how much these men are driven by personal ambition, how much by moral vigor, how much by pure thrill of the chase. Do they even like each other? They never discuss the wider significance of the case or their handling of it, only tactics and never strategy...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Out of the Woodstein | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

Terming Jackson "a very cerebral guy who responds well to counsel." Bergman said yesterday he has been trying to "dip into the kind of resources we have here at Harvard" in order to supply the candidate with advice on a broad range of issues

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Faculty Members Provide Candidates With Policy Advice | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

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