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Woman of the Year. Early in the movie, Katharine Hepburn raises her skirt above her knee and shows her long, long leg, enough to drive sane men crazy. Her beauty hit the transcendent point in this movie. Before she had been coltish and jagged, but with Women of the Year...

Author: By Alyson Dewitt, | Title: FILM | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

Three plays later and fourth-and-goal at the two, St. John again sent out a precision-guided missile, this time in the direction of Gary Confer, who hauled it in to put the Crimson on top.

Author: By James D. Auran, | Title: Harvard Freshman Whip B.C., 22-11; Classy Underclassmen Still Undefeated | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

Born on the Fourth of July begins and ends with those sketches of Vietnam. Kovic's simple, sparse style, together with a certain personal detachment in his narration, give a chilling precision to the horrors he describes,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wounds From a Nightmare | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

With the precision that characterized the campaign throughout, Administrator Bensinger first filled in U.S. Attorneys who would prosecute the incoming arrestees, discussed the expected influx of prisoners with Norman Carlson, director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, and consulted Dr. Robert Du-Pont, director of the National Institute on Drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bagging Heroin/B | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Akira Kurosawa is one of the few epic poets of the cinema, and his new movie, Dersu Uzala, brought the festival moments of real majesty. Shot in Russia-in 70-mm. screen size and stereophonic sound-Dersu Uzala is a rather delicate fable about the friendship between a Russian surveyor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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