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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The films are all but indistinguishable-we come away with a memory of one or two good jokes, but people don't remember Woody Allen jokes. Because Monty Python, like anything surrealistic, depends on the realism it parodies; it takes not of the world outside and (ab)uses it. Whereas...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

He gets away with it because his only distinctive talent is that he tells jokes extremely well. (Though he's a dreadful actor, embarassing when he's not laughing at something or other.) This is where he's been so lucky with Diane Keaton, who's a decent enough actress...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Qualities like honor, integrity, and courage don't own a place in Davis's lexicon of human motivation. She coins the term "mediapolitics"--which, we're told, signifies "the inseparable relationship between the media and the government"--and then assumes that such a relationship will turn cozy and manipulative, the...

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Nor do they succeed in suppressing her considerable intelligence. Early on, she saw Davis' book for what it became: Writes Davis, "I continued to work and she told her friends not to speak to me, as she feared the book would be a 'hatchet job.'"

Author: By Paul E. Hunt, | Title: Whipping The Post | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Of her second-place time of 5:03.8 which not only bettered the old school record but also stripped more than 15 seconds off of her personal best for the mile, Linsley said, "I was a little surprised. We started out really fast. I'm just glad Darlene was there...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Women Thinclads Whip Weak Wildcats | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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