Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never wanted to do a film so badly, except maybe 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which I didn't try hard enough to get, and lost out to Jack Nicholson," he said. He added that the movie, which will be released in 1979, is a "romantic comedy, sort of a masculine counterpart of An Unmarried Woman,'" in which a middle-aged, conservative college teacher tries to recover from his divorce...
...Santa Rosa Medical Center in San Antonio, periodically plugged into life-support systems, lies Sante Alessandro Bario, 42, once a crack undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He has lain there more than a month, his eyes always open, his brain waves showing no sign of activity, except for occasional convulsions. He is a victim-for reasons that remain mysterious-of the international drug trade...
...Sadat's determination to negotiate a West Bank agreement with or without Hussein's cooperation: Let him try if he wishes. But the future of the West Bank and Gaza is not for Sadat to decide or for me or anyone else except the Palestinian people...
...Paris might have been a tolerably good romantic farce with this cast, but Gilroy's dialogue is not very funny, and character development depends entirely on the acting and camera work since the script does not offer any. We learn nothing of the Hunnicutt character, for instance, except that she is sophisticated and looks fine in percale. And although the errant husband played by Rogers telephones hearty lies back to America each evening, nothing is established about his betrayed wife. Is she dull, interesting, ugly, beautiful, loyal, faithless, a drudge, a scholar, a rock guitarist? To know these things...
...opening night, The Four Seasons was on the program between two Balanchine masterpieces, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C. Those ballets were brutal competition for the new work, which nonetheless won the crowd with its buoyancy and élan. Rossini once said that all kinds of music are good except the boring kind. That goes for ballet too. - Martha Duffy