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...adversaries down in a Mediterranean villa and proceeds to complicate an already tangled web. Firman's task is to feed Krom a diet of "truth, rubbish and half-truth" that will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Capital Gains | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...plot. The girl Anna (Ullmann), casually abandoned by her drink-sodden seagoing father (Robert Donley), is seduced by a teen-age lout. Via instant replay she becomes a whore. Ill (the wages of sin), she returns to her father's barge. There she meets the Irish stoker Mat Burke, who is played by John Lithgow like a brain-numbed victim of killer bees. Naturally, these two crippled creatures fall in love. Anna confesses her past. Since Mat is a pre-ecumenical Roman Catholic, he is appalled that he has fallen for an unclean woman. But she tells him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Liv in Limbo | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...usual movie, it is at this point that everyone decides to cut away from character and call in the stunt coordinator to wow the audience with a big finish, a slam-bang deployment of men and matériel, all hardware and hard knocks, with nary a thought for such behavioral patterns as the film's earlier sequences may have established for the participants. Not so in Man on the Roof, the Swedish-made policier based on one of the Martin Beck novels by Mãj Sjöwall and Per Wahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whydunit | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

When a painting is not in imminent danger of blistering or cracking or a major sculptural flaw does not develop or a drawing does not need treatment to halt sliding in the mat, then aesthetic considerations assume primary concern, Beale said. Yellow varnish may discolor a painting and invite a cleaning...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Obscured By The Fogg | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...freshman and will probably make the second team this year behind the Yale grappler who administered D'Agostino's lone loss when Sal was forced by the team score to gamble for a pin. Ely and D'Agostino did not meet because the Crimson matman missed the Princeton mat with a rib injury...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Ready for Eastern Tournament | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

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