Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of them are hilarious, like a young couple skating together for the first time, the woman trying desperately to be graceful in her short shorts and her boyfriend trying to stay in control--while enjoying the view. Equally amusing are an older couple trying fruitlessly to act young again...
The first murder is one of the most revolting yet put on film. It put me off my popcorn, and I'm not easily nauseated. Alien operates thereafter on our anticipation of similar blood and guts; the tension is totally mechanical and rather unfair. The movie proves witless, plotless, pointless...
Alcatraz's cool, cinematic grace meshes ideally with the strengths of its star. Not a man to sell himself to the audience, Eastwood relies on a small as sortment of steely glances and sardonic smiles. Thanks to his ever craggier face, the gestures pay off better than usual, and...
Few college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate...
DIED. Leverett Saltonstall, 86, crusty Massachusetts Republican who as state house speaker (1929-36), Governor (1939-44), and U.S. Senator (1944-67) shaped policies in his increasingly Democratic state for nearly five decades; of a heart attack; in Dover, Mass. Born into a wealthy Brahmin family with 300-year-old...