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...With the gut understanding of a friend who's been with them since they were "barnstorming around the northern country in a busted-up Volkswagen," as he recalls it, Matson has put Pilobolus on paper as no words can. Though Matson describes himself as "a farmer and a writer," he has the eye of a cinematographer--and like his subjects, evidently, the energy of an athlete. "When I'm photographing Pilobolus, I'm down on the floor or flipping, too--it's almost like a sport," he says...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Terpsichore, Tongue-in-Cheek | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

...forces with De Niro on The Deer Hunter. Here Cimino creates a portrait of the war that beggars logic and is boundless in terror. An early Viet Nam sequence, in which imprisoned Americans are forced to play Russian roulette by their Viet Cong captors, is one of the most gut-wrenching ever. With Peter Zinner's virtuoso editing, an agonizing sound track and Vilmos Zsigmond's fiery cinematography, Cimino creates a beastly carnival of death even before brains are splattered across the screen. His portrait of South Viet Nam, from the infernal chaos of Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Hell Without a Map | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Thake the blood of him and the grease of himself and oatmeal and salt and peper and ginger, and mix these well together, and then put this in the gut of the porpoise and let it seethe easily, and not hard, a good while. Then take him up and broil him a little, and then serve forth...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: If You Think Your Mama Can Cook | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...rebound, the Gamecocks pushed their weight around underneath, knocking Harvard hoopsters about like bowling pins. Before you could say Johnny Petraglia, there was McLaughlin, crimson with rage, busting a gut at refs Bobby Godwin, Dan Woolridge, and Charlie Diehl, all of whom failed to call a loose-ball foul on the Gamecocks...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Gamecocks Top Crimson; Rally Fails In 85-71 Loss | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

...community's best interests." The citizens' lobby this case is the Red Line Alert. The Red Line Alert is a coalition of the Neighborhood Ten, (who fought the Radcliffe gymnasium on Observatory Hill), and those who fought Harvard's recombinant DNA laboratories. The issues are different, but the gut reaction is the same: "There goes the neighborhood...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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