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...especially with her half-successful attempts at seducing Joey. And the standard symbolic figures of Hollywood sterility abound: the cliche-laden director of kitsch; the ex-husband, short, stooped and Jewish, armed with empty loquacity and a bulging wallet: the columnist who is a wincing, mincing replica of Rex Reed...

Author: By Kevin J. Obrien, | Title: Torture by Heat | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...returning with neither honor nor glory to the nation they were supposedly "defending." The experience is especially bitter for those thousands who came back maimed or crippled. In one scene of Hogarthian savagery not long ago, television audiences watched a legless vet in a bar near Washington's Walter Reed Hospital blearily drinking beer from his prosthetic calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The US. After Viet Nam | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...belittles even the Crimson's role. Your reporters were present at two University press conferences in the spring (and asked some very incisive questions). I spent as much time as requested to help with several articles that appeared in spring issues, and I call your attention especially to Steven Reed's fine article in the Commencement Issue. There was no secrecy, and we spent long hours with students interested in different provisions of the proposed plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LOAN PROGRAM | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...church's architecture. By locating the unit within the small left transept facing the rear sound is easily projected to the back of the nave, encircling the entire congregation. The registrations are those of a baroque organ with many mixtures available over a presumably powerful fundamental. The reed stops tone is too often a nasal shriek. This was not helped by some faulty voicing of the individual pipes. But the biggest disappointment is the pedal division. Even the thirty-two-foot Untersatz the loudest stopped-pipe normally employed is inadequate, it does not support the loud mixtures played from...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Baroque Organ Dedication | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

...this wretched triangle by taking over the husband's tax business, lending him his supply of macaroons and hurrying him out to follow his wife around the streets of London and win her heart again. The film would be a laughable travesty were it not directed by Carol Reed, who made such superb films as The Third Man, Odd Man Out and Outcast of the Islands. That makes it a sad travesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Obtuse Triangle | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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