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...sorry, but I'm just in town for the day . . . since I'm an actress I thought I should meet you." says the starlet. "Well," replies Hopper. fanning the breeze with his arms. his face drawn from tiredness, his body wryly twisted: "I'm just the easiest person to meet...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Films The American Dreamer thru Sunday, at Hayden Hall, B.U. | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

...working-girl comedies of the decade. Unfortunately, the Currier House series doesn't include any of these movies, with their tough girl reporters and wise-cracking hoofers. As always in popular art, comedy can get away with more social comment than serious work (just as comedy is the easiest place to hide from social comment). The series instead has concentrated on the direct sexual themes of Dietrich in Shanghai Express, Garbo in Queen Christina, and Mae West in She Done Him Wrong. The last film does, of course, touch on the economics of Miss West and her jewels-this...

Author: By Richard Steadman, | Title: Women in Film | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

...colander, as unstable as a drunk trying to stand on one foot. Its central flaw is so common that Raymond Chandler complained about it 26 years ago in his great critique "The Simple Art of Murder": "The boys [cops] with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one some body tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody thought of only two minutes before he pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cute Dracula | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Despite a hand injury. All-American foiler Tom Keller put on one of the best performances of the season as he easily disposed of three Quakers. "He just fenced so well that he made it-look like the easiest thing in the world." Cetrulo said...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Fencers Lose to Quakers; Epee Squad Blanked, 9-0 | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

...Good Housekeeping. Then the President went on to say what he does understand about his daughters. "Appearances are deceiving. Julie looks like the strong, outgoing one. Tricia looks fragile. The fact is, Julie is more easily hurt than Tricia." Pat Nixon agrees that appearances are deceiving. "Dick is the easiest man in the world to live with. Outside, he may seem very serious, even forbidding to some. But when he comes home to me and the girls, he comes whistling and joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1971 | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

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