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Cheap Shots. This induces a bit of temporary Charles Bronsonism. Mar gaux grabs a rifle she just happens to have with her and guns down the as sailant. This turns out to be the cheap est shot in a cheap-shot enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marinade | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

This was not a simple process, and one would caricature Constable's achievement by treating it as a linear journey from style to reality. What he knew of art constantly modified what he saw in nature. But the balance he struck between these terms, in his fin est paintings, was quite new. Only the gentleness of the subjects - those mellow distances which, a century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: When God Was an Englishman | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Norman Mailer: "I think his whole life was destroyed by his name. He should have been called Male-est...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...failure-as even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing must know in his heart of hearts. A few days after signing the linguistic law, France's President was chatting to a group of journalists at the Elysée Palace. "Ce que je vais dire," he warned, "est off the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Non-Bons Mots in France | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...William Penn. An original two-act play set in the 17th century England and subtitled "The Birthpangs of Religious Freedom." Another product of the Bicentennial. Performed by the Fisherman's Players in Old W est Church, 131 Cambridge Street, Boston. Shows Deceber...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: THE STAGE | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

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