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That is not to say that Osius gives a weak performance: rather it is fine, even strong. He has the facial expressions, the physical prowess, and even all the proper voice modulations. But he just doesn't exude that kinetic force which should make More float on the stage.

Author: By Rebeera J. Joseph, | Title: More Is Less | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

The manic overstimulation of American culture also makes excellence rarer. The great intellectual flowering of New England in the 19th century (Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Frank Malina, 69, pioneering American aeronautical engineer whose early work on solid-fuel rockets helped the U.S. land the first man on the moon; of a heart attack; in Paris. Malina and the late aero-dynamicist Theodore von Karman helped found what became the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 23, 1981 | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

So The Fox and the Hound is a chase movie, an essay in dramatic movement comprising approximately 360,000 drawings and 110,000 painted eels, projected at 24 frames a second. As Tod and Copper learn more about themselves and each other while on the run, so the young Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Generation Comes of Age | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

The Crimson gridders had an extra spring that day, swarming the field with boundless kinetic energy. As the sun-flecked mountains gleamed in the background, Harvard managed one of its most unexpected--and most welcomed--triumphs, a 15-10 shocker over the gray, gray Cadets.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Moments to Remember for a Crimson Devotee | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

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