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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half, several scenes take too long to get to the point, which often turns out to be not very sharp. There are also gag sequences that could easily have been richer and more firmly developed. But Tom Berenger and William Katt are persuasive as the younger look-alikes of Newman and Redford (the latter's mannerisms are even gently parodied by Katt). When the pair finally get down to robbing banks and trains, their learner's clumsiness strikes an endearing note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spinning Yarn | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...children; the gentle muteness that Diderot perceived often turns into a noble ineloquence, as though Piero della Francesca were visiting the nursery. In some way Chardin's absorption in the act of painting paralleled the absorption of children in their games, which he painted. One has only to look at the figure in his portrait Little Girl with Shuttlecock-the expressionless face and white shoulders jammed into the stiff bodice like an ice cream into its cone, the sequence of forms pinned together by accents of blue on her cap, her dress, her scissors ribbon and the feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sonneteer of a World at Rest | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Lifton sees another, more controversial psychological device at work. Because most cultures fear dying, one way to combat that dread is to look around for an enemy that symbolizes death. For the Nazis, it was the Jews, who had long been portrayed as Christ killers. Says Lifton: "If you view the Jews as death-tainted, then killing them seems to serve life." In Lifton's eyes, those who look upon the Nazis or their medical henchmen simply as maddened sadists are on the wrong track. "Most killing is not done out of sadism, not even most Nazi killing," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Doctors of the Death Camps | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Like, everyone wants to look black in New York these days. Faces with black lenses, black frames around the eyes, faces framed in black beards. Afros on all the blacks- beautiful. But like, everyone looks puff-headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE for the hypercritical. The sloppiness of Arthur Hiller's direction becomes apparent at the end, when you can look back and survey the ruins he's made of a basically funny idea. If little inconsistencies cause you to cringe-the same shot repeated several times in the course of a car chase, or subplots that never get resolved- The In-Laws may bring on a seizure...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: In-lawed Outlaws | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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