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...character, he seems to lack the energy to fill in the kind of details that can, in masterly hands, utterly charm and disarm. There are possibilities, for example, in the bickering of Davis and Smith, but they peter out. There are promising hints of giddiness in Farrow's lovelorn posturings, but they too get lost in the toils of the plotting, and nothing much comes of doctor, lawyer or Communist. Even Poirot's fastidiousness and egocentricity are not used to full comic effect, Shaffer electing to go for the easy, running gags that involve the traditional difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Camping in Style | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Laura Nyro: Nested (Columbia). The record that asks the question: "Can we mend/ transcend/ the broken dishes of our love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops in Pops | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...defendants in the espionage trial were hardly the most dangerous of spies. Ronald Humphrey, 42, emerged in the testimony as a naive, lovelorn officer in the U.S. Information Agency whose lawyer insisted he never meant to harm the U.S. although he delivered Government documents to a foreign agent. David Truong, 32, a Vietnamese peace activist, said he simply wanted to help effect a rapprochement between the U.S. and his homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Odd Couple | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Through the White House switchboard. Gerald Ford spoke to Republican Senators from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. At the White House dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Carter even asked Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers to help out. She agreed and called Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Wins on Panama | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that it could gather its most zealous audience ever with the quality soap opera called Upstairs, Downstairs. Many radio stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America's New Sentimental Journey | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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