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SOLDIEER BLUE is just another Hollywood whore, trying to redeem itself by faking a socially-conscious heart of gold. The film opens with a Chevenne attack on a U.S. Cavalry paymaster's detail and closes with a Cavalry attack on a peaceful and defenseless Chevenne village. But it is only...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: FilmsCowboys and Vietnamese | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

MISS Susan Orkins? Better make that Cadet Colonel Orkins, who represents yet another first for women's equality. She has been made commander of the 500-member Air Force ROTC wing at Ohio State University. Most of Colonel Orkins' subordinates are men, which could cause a protocol problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Girl Colonel | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

When his style is working, though, Perelman can be so funny it's almost awe-inspiring. What can one say about the words he sprinkles through the book, always in impeccably proper context: words like dyspnea, archimandrite, steatopygous, and eisteddfod? And what would Dickens have given to use this description...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Baby, it's Cold Inside | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

Novelist Atwood's quietly awful vision is summed up in a throwaway line. "Hunger is more basic than love," she murmurs in a bizarre aside. "Florence Nightingale was a cannibal." Amid the situation-comedy ordinariness of her life, Marian, the title character of The Edible Woman, suddenly finds herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Consuming Hunger | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Not that there isn't any hope in Five Easy Pieces. At one point, Robert, adrift in his father's house, expresses romantic interest in Katherine (Susan Anspach), his brother's fiance, who is also staying there. They play out all their little defensive games with each other, and, just...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Movies Five Easy Pieces at the Abbey II | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

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