Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another gift in high demand this holiday season is "time." Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, John E. Dowling, Biology Professor, Stanley Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, William Alfred, Kenan Professor of English, and Margaret E. Law, Registrar of the Faculty, each asks for more time off or more time...
...Harriet. Gloria (CBS, Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around, but the new shading is poor cover for humor that is stale white bread...
...bishops cannot persuade skeptical Catholics to join their stand against nuclear arms, both the White House and nuclear-freeze advocates believe that they can become a potent force in shaping and influencing what is likely to become an increasingly important political issue in the months ahead. Says Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, 51, with some trepidation: "We are going to divide America over this issue. But the people of America have shown resilience. They can work through it and heal...
...promising mix of films. Three movies head the insiders' early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine; and Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi. These four films will be released for selective engagements...
DIED. Elio Petri, 53, sardonic leftist Italian film director who won an Oscar in 1971 for his Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, a complex, unsettling study of a high police official who perversely becomes a killer but is unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...