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...will it? Can we rely on students' selfish instinct for money grubbing? Maybe students today are more altruistic. Perhaps they will resist the attraction of the high dollar return on Shakespeare and Fine Arts and continue preparing themselves for lives dedicated to those non-monetary goals of Health, Justice, and Corporate Happiness...

Author: By Frank D. Fisher, | Title: Liberal Arts: Bringing Back the Bottom Line | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...might have got away with his jeremiad had he set it in the future and pretended it was a projection of what might happen if certain current trends go unchecked? All of that is true enough, but the real problem is that Chayefsky has betrayed his own truest instinct about the medium. At one point he has William Holden, the news executive who functions as the movie's superego, inform Faye Dunaway, the ratings-mad exec who is its id, that the trouble with TV is that it reduces everything to banality. That may well be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Upper Depths | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...advantage in stick-work and in the instinct of going to meet the ball, but she said her team thought the game was great experience and held an exciting international flavor...

Author: By Sarah A. Stahl, | Title: Stickwomen Lose Post-Season Game | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

HAPPILY, director Paul Suchecki has offset the poorly chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that senses when to burrow and when to flee. Alan Stock plays a jittery boy with a cramped intelligence. His Joey is more attuned to emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Horovitz's Complaint | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...Solomine) and the man he employs as a guide. Dersu Uzala (ebulliently and affectionately played by Maxim Munzuk) lives in the forests of eastern Siberia in easy alliance with the natural order. The surveyor, called "the Captain," is a man of science and precision. Dersu is a creature of instinct and superstition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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