Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hereby propose a national campaign to boycott next year's Super Sunday at the Super Bowl, [Jan. 16]. For too long have we faithful fans gobbled up hours of insipid, rampant commercialism for the sole pleasure of watching poorly played, overprogrammed games. It was televised not out of love for the game, but so that huge corporations could beam down their benevolent images upon us. From now on, either we boycott it or they must pay us to watch...
...about 1,000 items -paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, objects, polemics, documents-it was organized by a team headed by the distinguished English art critic David Sylvester, under the title "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed." It attempts to treat Dada and surrealism on their own terms (those of dandyism, revolt, love, dream and myth) rather than judge them by official "painterly" standards. As a result the show goes further into the labyrinth than any retrospective for years on writers like Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Antonin Artaud, and such painters as Dali, Ernst, Miro, Magritte and Alberto Giacometti...
...Wertmuller has really outdone herself in her first English-language film. This all too cutely titled comedy is not merely a failure: it's a devastating self-parody. Indeed, audiences who sit through it may well begin to wonder why they ever admired such superior Wertmuller efforts as Love and Anarchy and Seven Beauties. Or they may wonder if they stay awake...
...mawkish finale that seems inspired by Who's Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf?, the film calls attention to all of Wertmuller's worst habits. Characters are forever letting loose with faddish and fatuous pronouncements about the connections between love and power. Loud music and pounding drums on the sound track accent the script's most histrionic moments...
...note for the remaining $50,000 at 9% interest. Powers, a onetime defensive back for the Oakland Raiders, views the move to Missouri as a boon to his career, however costly it may be. Says he: "The coaching profession is a very precarious one anyway. The same people that love you will fire you. But I'm sure going to read my contracts a bit closer...