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...woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. "His Girl Friday" is louder and faster than any other movie ever made. Cary Grant did everything right as Walter Burns; it must have been a great surprise to see him work in this sort of part after the more submissive work he'd been used to. Rosalind Russell talks like a robot with too many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kubrick Gets His Kicks; Hawks Hyperventilates | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...role as an analyst is more important than his role as a veteran. But he is too perfect, especially in the film's climax when Dern confronts his wife with his knowledge of her affair. While the background music of the Chambers Brothers' "The Time Has Come Today" gets louder and louder, the tension mounts--Dern aims his deranged look and the automatic weapon held in his shaky hands at his wife. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. In wheels Voight, who in his native, mellow, California psychotherapist way explains that what everyone needs is a little openness...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...share of U.S. family budgets these days, and the Government's consumer price index has been revised to reflect that trend (TIME, March 13), food-price increases are still the most visible and annoying variety of inflation to millions of consumers. Shoppers' beefs will soon get even louder. Last week the Government reported that the February Wholesale Price Index for finished goods, which foreshadows retail prices, jumped at an annual rate of 14%, nearly double the January rise and the biggest monthly leap since November 1974. Food, which did more than anything else to push January consumer-price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Why Food Prices Are Climbing | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...know, I mean what if a ghost comes into your house? If you don't have a gun by your bed, what can you do to chase the ghost away? I have my rights, and I want to protect myself from ghosts. . ." On and on she rambled, getting louder and louder until she was literally screeching, trying to drown out the noise of the tracks. I was trapped until she suddenly bolted near New Haven, looking, I suppose, for the next blissful dose of thorazine...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson pressure fell off as the exhortations of the crowd and Coach Taylor grew louder. It was the Bulldogs that got the quick goal this time, with freshman Jim Murphy stuffing the rebound of a Paul Castraberti shot by Hynes at 1:22 of the second to give Yale the lead...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Penalized, But Icemen Punished in End, 3-2 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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