Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rafelson works cool wizardry with actors, and there are many good performances here, especially by John David Carson as one of the country-club louts and Gary Goodrow as a manager-promoter. The movie lingers, but it does not persuade. The characters are too pat, their predicaments too flexible and too easily surmounted. There is even a fairly conventional happy ending, something novel for Rafelson, but it rings false. Uncle Albert's advice to Craig may not have been out of place, after all. Rafelson might think it over too. ∙Jay Cocks
...bouts of wrestling and the Comedian Dell'Arte's pantomime. Among all the dancers the devil's mute partner, Salme (Charlotte Spanos), stands out. Her sinuous form oozes gratuitous corruption. Pulcinello's (Kevin Grumbach) mime effortlessly steals the show for awhile. Even the courtesans playing cat's cradle and pat-a-cake provide an instant's interest for your roving...
...designs are soft-top versions of the heavily boned "Maginot Line" prom gowns of the '40s and '50s. Recalls Pat Johnson of Washington's Garfinckel's: "It used to be with the old strapless things that you moved one way and the dress the other." Today's no-straps are made of soft, clingy fabrics such as matte jersey and chiffon. Strapless bras are rarely worn. Says Martha Ferris of Chicago's Bonwit Teller: "It's bareness without blatancy...
...hired two research assistants with different skills to divide one salary. In Palo Alto, Calif., Ruth Freis and Miriam Miller share the post of program director for a network of day-care centers, and Engineer Chris Jako has arranged to split a job planning a science center with Biologist Pat Cross. A few liberal-arts colleges-including Iowa's Grinnell and Ohio's Oberlin-have hired husband-and-wife teams for single junior professorial slots...
...Yardling nine skimmed by Quincy Junior College Tuesday, 8-6. Quincy jumped to a five-run lead, but Pat Daly broke the game open with a bases-loaded triple in the sixth inning...