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...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pixyland | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...also rerun the hit movie The Sting on April 20, ahead of schedule. Not to be ambushed, CBS has slipped in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a two-part TV movie, just before the closing of the ratings season. Should this show prove a smash one-two punch, CBS may once more be known as "the Tiffany of the networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Ratings Gambit | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...that "looks like a luxury,/Feels like a disease." This is Modern Man bombarded by machines, crying for the human touch as he vocally ascends the scale to keep from being swallowed, and succumbs with a heart-rending wail. The song is followed slam-bang by "Beaten To the Punch," in which Elvis races to keep up with the noisy, busy instruments, seizing opportunities before everyone else, and discovering, as he goes under with a shriek, that he has become a prisoner of his choices...

Author: By D. BRUCE Edelstein, | Title: Abyss and Costello | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

Balance proved the key once again as senior co-captain Peter Predun and sophomore Mike Davis shared high scorer honors with four goals each. With a hot stick triggering the offensive punch of each of Harvard's first two midfield lines, the less-gifted Penn team fell quickly by the wayside...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Crimson Stickmen Devastate Quakers | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

TEXAS RANGERS: Ranger's owner Brad Corbett finally had an off-season where he didn't decimate his team with trades and finally has a team that's ready to make a run for the play-offs. There's no better one-two punch in the bullpen than Jim Kern and Sparky Lyle...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: BASEBALL | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

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