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ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Acting: The Clap Trap | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

Last Tango and Streetcar. Remember what Woody Allen looked like after the Orgasmatron went berserk in Sleeper? This double bill still makes me shake my head and grope for a drink...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

Like an adolescent son of Oh! Calcutta!, Let My People Come is aggressively and amiably smutty, carrying a message now old enough to seem almost quaint: roughly, grope your way to sexual freedom. For all its nudity, it is probably the least erotic musical since Oklahoma! But without reviews that is a fact that voyeurs will discover only after they have paid their money ($9.50 top) at the box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Sexual Non-Show | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...ethereally or divinely endowed. But most will cite a certain mystique about the mountain which they attribute to the physical characteristics of the mountain and not to mystical qualities. One of the most crowded times at the summit of Adams is just before sunset. And the hikers who grope slowly back down to shelter below the timberline in the shimmering darkness after watching the sunset will never argue that what they have just witnessed was a most spectacular scene. For the few fleeting moments while the sun sets, the whole mountain is bathed in a fiery red tint...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Worshipping A Mountain | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...book goes far beyond other books based on interviews in that they attempt to create a comprehensive modern theory of class structure as it holds for the majority of people. Drawing together thoughts from philosophers and modern social scientists, even from literary sources such as Flaubert and Tolstoy, they grope and question and gradually develop a very deeply felt portrait of society and its hierarchies. In the end, Sennett and Cobb present a utopian picture of a world with diverse standards of achievement where every man can feel his worth, but unfortunately this is also a picture which includes...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Dreams and Defenses...Families Caught Between | 10/13/1973 | See Source »

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