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...nonsense with slow-motion automotive stunts and barroom brawls, but these signature sequences just do not have the energy of the director's best work (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) or even his worst (The Killer Elite, Bring Me the Head of Al fredo Garcia). At one point the film's hero announces that "the purpose of the convoy is to keep moving"; maybe so, but if Convoy has any purpose, forward movement is not it. - Frank Rich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Duck Soup | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...into the act, clucking about what a mess Grandmother had left and how lucky Ditchley was that, thanks to their skill, the whole thing might not cost him too much. That made Ditchley worry about his own estate being picked clean, so he called on Thurmond Hotchkiss O'Mulvaney Garcia & Ginsburg, where a junior partner had a secretary copy a few paragraphs from a book and then presented him with a brand-new will and a bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Meanwhile, on April 19, David Bromberg teams up with Maria Muldaur (last seen onstage with Jerry Garcia) at Symphony Hall. Maria went to my high school and used to cut her English class to sing in the bathroom. The acoustics at Symphony Hall are much better, though...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: No Moped Jokes This Week | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Barring an upset, probably General Romeo Lucas Garcia, a former Defense Minister, will win. In any case, Guatemalans classify their elections almost like French wines: '66 and '70 were fairly honest years, '74 was widely regarded as a fraud. On that basis, '78 is apt to be an interesting, possibly violent year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica Shows How, Again | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Last week in Texas the eyes had it. An El Paso jury sided with Garcia, awarding him $5,000 in damages. Elated, Garcia promised to donate a portion of his award to Seeing Eye, a New Jersey guide-dog training organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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