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...elaborate and unlikely jail breaks; then, using his fugitive status as a cover, he is to track down a major violator of the Official Secrets Act. There are drug injections, escapes, captures, car chases, beatings, doublecrosses and whatnot. There are even two novelties: a woman kicked in the groin and a bit of blather about letting the Commie spies go, since everyone seems to be letting bygones be bygones these days. Within the limits of the genre, this stuff is handled well enough. It just seems terribly redundant, even to the people involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...with a considerable amount of bawdy byplay--such as the masturbatory caressing of a staff, the tossing about of a large rubber phallus, the snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been doing such roles for the AST off and on since...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...rarest of novels, one which conveys the texture, the immediacy, the superb improbability of love as it hap pens. The metamorphosis of Bradley from a self-concerned prig into a dancer of the rites of spring does such full justice to the mysteries of the heart, imagination and the groin, as to seem predestined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Minuet | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

Bando opened the game up in the first inning, homering off Luis Tiant, who had to retire after aggravating a groin injury in the third. Blue lasted eight innings before Orlando Pina replaced him and picked up an easy save in the ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OAKLAND VS. THE RED SOX | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

West, hampered by a pulled groin muscle, scored only one point in the third quarter and sat out the final period altogether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knicks Squeeze Past Lakers, 87-83, For 2-1 Lead in NBA Playoff Finals | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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