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Shot in Hong Kong by Warner Bros., Enter the Dragon is made - in English - with Hollywood expertise and a certain rather lighthearted affection for the excesses and silliness of the whole Kung Fu genre. During one of the hero's few moments of repose, he advises a pupil who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compound Fracture | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Guccione made his reputation with Penthouse, his raunchy, lighthearted superskin magazine for men (TIME, July 30). Viva was supposed to be a bright and sophisticated monthly for women who find Cosmopolitan too coy. It is a logical goal, but the problems begin with the publisher himself. To place the magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Viva Viva? | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Lighthearted and even bawdy moments accompanied some of the most controversial decisions in the dubious peacemaking toward the end of World War II. Top-secret wartime papers made public this month by the British Foreign Office throw a new light on how Great Britain's Winston Churchill and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTE: Joking at the Summit | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

This nearly overwhelming film is part epic allegory, part lighthearted Brechtian morality play and part three-ring circus. It is the saga of a young English coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell), a description as precise and inadequate as saying that Gulliver's Travels concerns the misadventures of a ship'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enlightened Mischief | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

The Gold Rush. Perhaps no other film is so lighthearted and yet so moving. Charlie Chaplin's story of a lone prospector during the Alaska gold rush is based on pantomime of amazing finesse; Chaplin's direction exemplifies flawless subordination of camera and technique to the subject's subtleties. Many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

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