Word: reruns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from my eyes! I don't care to be the butt of your amusement." The script seems just badly written until one listens critically and realizes that every line could have been lifted from a Late Show rerun. The lines are as carefully strung together as if the whole purpose of the script had been to construct the perfect dialogue from long-retired phrases and adolescent sexual puns. Oscar's favorite line, as he tries to figure out how much the girl is really worth, is the standard flyer: "Didn...
...Welfare released its first set of proposed rules to end sex discrimination in education, it drew criticism from all sides. Last week, after a year of tinkering with the original document in an effort to placate critics, HEW laid down a new set of rules. But its summer rerun is in the same old trouble. Some feminists say that HEW has been too timid. Some colleges and the National Collegiate Athletic Association say the department has come on too strong. The N.C.A.A. thinks the provision for equal opportunity for women in college sports "may well signal the end of intercollegiate...
...large extent, the activities were a rerun of similar exercises last February at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where NASA has set up comparable simulators. Last week NASA released the first photographs of these sessions, showing scenes that would have been unthinkable at the height of the space race: Russian and American spacemen sharing their rations, lying side by side on their couches and operating the controls of each other's craft...
...designs for false bookshelves and secret passageways, Krotz some times appears to be auditioning for the part of James Bond's next artificer. But his improvisations are far more suggestive of a Maxwell Smart rerun. One can almost hear the nasal whine: "The old up-and-in opening-fulcrum-stair-kick-board hiding place, eh, chief?" One significant hiding place is omitted from this complete volume: a place large enough to accommodate both the thief and his victim. It is called the judicial system, with its hidden compartments-the police station, the courtroom and the jail...
Pauline Kael reviewed John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence in a yawning rerun where R.D. Laing--that tired old intellectual straw man--is propped up only to be laid flat. Going on nothing more concrete than the fact that "The theories of R.D. Laing, the poet of schizophrenic despair, have such theatrical flash that they must hit John Cassavetes smack in the eye," she proclaims his movie "the work of a disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing...