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This is not to imply that all the misunderstandings of self and others in Blue Country involve sex. A man sells his farm in order to live in a city apartment, then decides to take up farming again. The normally equable Fossey becomes a raging hysteric whenever she encounters a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Disconnections | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

This time the 747-load of fools consists of rich folks being ferried to an art-gallery opening in Palm Beach at the lavish expense of its owner (James Stewart). Also aboard are many of his paintings and a gang of hijackers who gas crew and passengers and slip down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Misnomer | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara as Martha and George leer endearingly throughout with maddening control, periodically exploding barrages of verbal fire into vulnerable areas. Their conspiratorial magic transforms metaphysical ping-pong into a cooing and spitting that is pleasing to watch. Richard Kelton as Nick embodies the American Dream to...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: Albee's Not | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

The horses, by the way, are simply tall men in chestnut track suits. On their feet are strutted hooves about 4 in. high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Freudian Exorcism | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

What keeps all this from being completely sticky is that Rosalind is not a weepy, fragile hysteric but a thoroughly selfish adolescent cow. Andy, studious and shy, willingly undergoes every humiliation for her. After he has managed to arrange a private operation, Rosalind casually asks him if he could change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Puberty Rites | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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