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There is, for instance, a whole group of bullfighters whose shapes, except for a brusque vitality of placement that was always Picasso's hallmark and never quite left his fist, might almost have been produced by David Stein, Elmyr de Hory, or some other moderately gifted faker. Every artist has the right to his own cliches, but the last Picassos are only startling as cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picasso's Worst | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...FISTS OF FURY is such a shambles that Five Fingers of Death, the other Chinese battle hymn to Kung Fu that is currently cleaning up in the U.S. (TIME, May 14), looks by comparison like The Seven Samurai. The fights, which are plentiful but somehow lackadaisical, are all generated by the disappearance of several brothers who work down at the icehouse, where envelopes of white powder are frozen in the middle of each cake. Pressed to explain this, the plant manager says guilelessly: "There's no profit in ice. In dope, plenty." The hero, Bruce Lee, may be furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

From virtually nothing, Mr. Starr has built up a business that caters to libraries and collectors around the world. He picks up a fist-full of order forms from his cluttered desk and waves them at me. "See, this one's from Germany," he says. "And these are all from Canada." Many of his customers are people who have seen the catalogue he sends out, or who've heard of him through the trade journals. But he also makes a lot of contacts through visiting professors who come to Harvard from other countries. That's one reason he thinks. Cambridge...

Author: By Wendy Lesser, | Title: The Business | 5/17/1973 | See Source »

These films depict, after all, nonsensical, episodic, comic sex -- hardly the stuff of "adult" life. I can't imagine what kind of perversity or anti-social behavior they could generate except, perhaps, an occasional fist through the ticket-window in blind rage at the exorbitant prices charged to see them...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: Bare & Barren | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

Most of Vietnam, like Dong, has been irrevocably altered by almost a decade of American war. From the one-person bomb shelters that dot the North Vietnamese landscape to the teeming refugee slums in the South, the Vietnamese are constantly reminded that American laid a mailed fist across their country...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: A Week of Friendship | 4/28/1973 | See Source »

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