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Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

CONTRARY to some opinions, it is not true that if you have seen one Vice President, you have seen them all. But the question of what kind of a Veep Spiro T. Agnew will make is more than usually clouded. At the beginning of the campaign, he made anonymity an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39th Doge | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Joking, frequently punning, becomes an obsession in the dialogue, not to relieve tension or to underline the callousness present in those following the strangler, but simply, it seems, to flesh out a weak plot with vaudeville routines that would have left the Old Howard crowd stone cold. One suspect, a...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The Boston Strangler | 11/12/1968 | See Source »

The majority of Harvard ruggers feel that the parties after the matches are inextricably linked to the rugby experience. "So much of the game springs from the 'rugger spirit,'" wing forward Bill Sargent explains, "that it's unheard of to just play a match and then go home. We always...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Rugby at Harvard | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

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