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Brubaker, which is about the efforts of a warden to clean up what looks to be the foulest and most corrupt prison in America, is not as close to everyone's concerns as All the President's Men was, nor has it the knockabout charm of The Electric Horseman. But it is an often powerful film. Its most potent passages come at the beginning. Redford, in the title role, becomes an inmate in a prison in order to experience conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knothead | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...American infantry tank company. He flew with them from their base at Fort Polk, La., attended the ceremonies welcoming them to Germany and then followed them into the field. His camera makes no judgments, but the Pentagon should be happy with the result: American soldiers may have the foulest mouths in the world but, for the most part, they seem also to be intelligent and hardworking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: War Games | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...native country and contrast it to Maine. The old lady lives sur rounded by tacky reproductions of Dutch scenes and execrable examples of porcelain. Her brother briefly thinks that she may have killed her husband but concludes that he is overinfluenced by the fact that her meals constitute the foulest kind of home cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chiller | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...occurred after her mother's death when she was 13, her second after her father's death nine years later. Her grief was maniacal. She found the act of eating obscene. Worst of all, she heard "horrible voices," among them "King Edward VII lurking in the azaleas using the foulest possible language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V. - Virginial Woolf: A Biography | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...entertainment for fear of some impending exam. Knowing the names of the characters does not really help, since their natures change with bewildering rapidity. Click: here is Messalina gamely struggling to protect her virginity from Caligula. Presto: here is Messalina, Empress to Claudius, cuckolding him wholesale in the foulest brothels of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The View from London | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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