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Word: petered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diego. Tanned, fit, cheerful students mixed musings on revolution with sunning, surfing, downing beers. "You cannot have fun with fascism," Marcuse recently complained. Yet he seemed to have fun. Just three years ago, he married his third wife Erica (by his first marriage he had a son Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Revolution Never Came | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...occasion was the U.S. premiere of Houdini a "circus opera" by Dutch Composer Peter Schat and British Writer Adrian Mitchell. A note in Mitchell's libretto says that the work-originally produced in Amsterdam in 1977-"isn't a documentary but a celebration." What it celebrates is the spirit of human freedom symbolized by Houdini's ingenious escapes from every form of shackle and confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Houdini: The Riddle Remains | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...found to play her younger sister. Margaux thought of Mariel, and a few months later critics were saying that this serious, chubby-faced 13-year-old was the better actress. Tatum O'Neal auditioned for her role in Paper Moon without knowing what was going on. Director Peter Bogdanovich dropped by the O'Neal house, and Tatum's cool backchat persuaded him to hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...Peter Tosh--Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge. Telephone 864-4580. Aug. 24, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. $7.50 advance tickets. $9 day of show. Available at major ticket outlets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: around town | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

...script, adapted from Peter Gent's novel of the same name, is fairly true to the book. Like gent's novel, the movie captures the urban cowboy humor of the locker rooms, it delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

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