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Klute has the best male-to-female putdown line in recent movies, when Donald Sutherland says "That's so pathetic" to Jane Fonda. The best female-to-male one is probably when Glenda Jackson lays it on Oliver Reed in the hotel room near the end of Women in Love. Anyway, Fonda's performance here is peerless...
...advise President Nixon. "Get on national television and say 'I resign,' " said Ann bluntly. At a recent White House reception she went on to relate, a "prominent politician" approached her: "So you're Ann Landers -tell me something funny." Replied Ann, quick as usual with a putdown: "So you're a politician-tell...
Until recently, professional astronomers, more concerned with planets, distant galaxies, quasars and pulsars, left the observing of comets largely to amateurs. Comets were "bagfuls of nothing," sniffed Percival Lowell, the turn-of-the-century astronomer who made a career of observing Mars. Since that putdown, scientists have learned to take comets more seriously-as primordial chunks of matter left over from the birth of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Thus Kohoutek, which was spotted first at the Hamburg Observatory last March, offers a splendid opportunity for observers to learn more about the drama of creation. Indeed, because...
...Underwear. Off the set. Hutton rejects the glamour role completely. So far she has turned down talk-show invitations because she thinks that the hosts are "putdown artists," and she does not have anything interesting to say-at least not yet. "It would be pretentious for me to come on and say, 'O.K., folks, let's stop killing whales...
Altman's lazy, haphazard putdown is without affection or understanding, a nose-thumb not only at the idea of Philip Marlowe but at the genre that his tough-guy-soft-heart character epitomized. It is a curious spectacle to see Altman mocking a level of achievement to which, at his best, he could only aspire...