Word: rapscallions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they killed his family. Thus compromised, the movie still has some virtues. It was photographed in Utah, and the landscapes of fall and winter are regally beautiful. In fact no one seems to fill the screen as well as the mountains, save for Stefan Gierasch, whose performance as a rapscallion mountain man named Del Grue is joyous and exceptionally inventive...
...full of Rice's kaleidoscopic recollections; tantalizing snatches of Merton's books, letters and poetry, both published and unpublished; pages of photographs; even a few breezy, Picasso-like nudes drawn by Merton shortly before he entered the monastery. Merton the Columbia undergraduate emerges as an accomplished rapscallion, occasionally wicked enough to make his later repentance believable. Not only did he have "an active sex life," but Rice even implies that a prewar romance during Merton's Cambridge days in England produced a child (who died, with its mother, in the London blitz). Rice stimulates curiosity with...
Such monastic concentration suggests that Doubell, a systems analyst for Shell of Australia, is Ralph the Robot. Far from it. Decked out in an antelope suede jacket, black hip-hugging bell-bottoms and tan suede shoes, he is more Ralph the Rapscallion, enjoying "the usual recreations of a young man." As speedy behind the wheel as he is on the track, he was hauled in last year for gunning his Chevelle Malibu down the San Diego freeway at 100 m.p.h. Two weeks ago, after setting a meet record in the half mile at Manhattan's Millrose Games, he jetted...