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Cosmo convinces Victor (Lee Canalito), the brother long on muscle and short on brains, to make them some money by fighting at a wrestling joint, Paradise Alley. He is the familiar good-natured idiot, in the vein of Lenny in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Clark's story is a hybrid of The Rainmaker and the collected works of Larry McMurtry (Hud. The Last Picture Show). He tells of two antagonistic small-time ranchers, a tomboy spinster (Fonda) and a good-natured World War II veteran (Caan), who reluctantly pool their resources to battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Tame West | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

The only alternative to despair Townshend gives us is the same offered by all rock musicians with pretensions--the power of their own music. "Guitar and Pen," a bouncy, playful tune, the most good-natured one on the album, predictably tells us just what an artist's only friends are...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: One Last Time Around | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

This the argument that for years the Harvard administration has turned against The Crimson and, to a lesser degree in recent years, the weekly Independent. These are just students, the deans smile, shaking their heads--their views are not to be trusted, for they cannot be as cool-headed as...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Just The Facts, Sir | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

The anatomy of this whole episode is instructive. North Carolina was a state important to Carter's political rise, and it is considered pivotal to his future. He stands low there now in part because of the Government's antismoking drive. So it was natural to target North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of Tobacco | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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