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Until the denouement, viewers who want to believe that lunatics are not standard intelligence figures can clutch Falk's own statement that the agency had kicked him out and the confirmation of a CIA higher-up whom Arkin calls. "The man's a total lunatic-I'd advise you to...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: In-lawed Outlaws | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Still, it is not Burns alone who makes the picture work. Singer John Denver is agreeable as his reluctant modern Moses, and Teri Garr is marvelous as a model of wifely forbearance, deftly blending skepticism about her husband's claims to contact with the higher-up and faith in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God Is Nice | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

You may hear an argument for more women undergraduates whose premise is that more women would make life much easier for all the men undergraduates here. And you may hear a counter-argument that knowingly rests on the fact that women haven't made the kind of money in the...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: It's Tough to Be a Woman at Harvard | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

P: Let's suppose they get Mitchell [John Mitchell, former Attorney General]. They're going to say now what about Haldeman, what about . . . the rest? . . . I want somebody to say, now look, here are the facts. Of the White House people [unintelligible]. There are no other higher-up. The White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further tales from the transcripts | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Working class people must first be seen as individuals and not stereotyped as hopeless, ignorant racists. The greatest virtue of The White Majority is its portrayal of the actual life-style of the white working class--one very distant from Harvard's. In the words of Gene Cappelli, a 29...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Down Under and Forgotten | 9/29/1971 | See Source »

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