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Kaplan has made a game stab at filling the space. He had meticulously choreographed a procession of clever unsurprising slapstick turns, solemnly executed by actors who signal the coming of a collision, pratfall or somersault the way a five-year-old holds his nose before diving off a high board...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Predictable Pratfalls | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

> In Philadelphia last week, a bumper-to-bumper procession of cars, sometimes ten miles long, inched into the city while subways, buses and trolleys stood idle, sidelined by a strike of 5,000 transit workers, the fourth such in six years. Thousands of commuters from the city's outskirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumbling Toward Ruin | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

From the start, however, we know something is up--boy doesn't meet girl in Fresno. A teacher, instead, falls for a ravishing but ignorant peasant in a remote Russian village. The premise unfolds quickly. An unfortunate group of Soviet serfs living in a secluded part of the Ukraine has...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Rated G | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

After eight international tours that have covered IS nations, tumultuous motorcades and clamoring multitudes have become familiar when Pope John Paul II is on the road. But the papal procession across the Philippines last week-his ninth foreign journey and his first to Asia-also displayed ample elements of stagecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Mission To the East | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

Polanski's style is relentlessly Romantic, his pacing languorous. A procession of cheery young girls, clad in white, approach us from far down the dusty country road. They pass two by two, voices twittering, hair shining, eyes dancing. They disappear slowly into the hilly countryside. Later, a kind farm apprentice...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Polanski Prettified | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

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