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What they should trade one of these out-fielders for is a pitcher--three or four pitchers, for that matter. Boston's league-leading activity should not obscure the fact that its pitching staff ranges from erratic to pathetic: the team tends to win games by scores like 11: 8...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Introducing...the Boston Red Sox | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

For the same reason, Penn makes it difficult to form judgements about the people on the screen. The guilty ones are nice folks: innocent bystanders are mean and pathetic--the only morally objectionable acts are filmed impersonally, and we don't see the faces of the murderers. So Moseby's...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Check, Check, Check | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

Among the personalities lately subjected to runaway inflation, none is more pathetic than Judy Garland. Along the parabola that describes her career, Garland made 37 films. Only a handful are memorable and only one, The Wizard of Oz, is a classic. But she gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show and Tell | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Her anonymous narrator, a woman living alone in an unidentified city, finds herself existing in a kind of end-time-an apocalypse disguised by understatement. Other tenants are quietly abandoning her apartment building, joining the migrant tribes that suddenly appear, briefly camp, and just as suddenly move on "to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghosts and Portents | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

In the same ways, the white heroine Janie (Hilary Jean Beane) is the most pathetic of all. Bullins has drawn a masterly portrait of a befuddled, innocent, college-educated liberal. She professes to admire the poems of Monty (Adeyami Lythcott), her eventual rapist. But it is clear that she is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Requiem for the '60s | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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