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Even at its best, Robin Hood is only mildly diverting. There is not a single moment of the hilarity or deep, eerie fear that the Disney people used to be able to conjure up, or of the sort of visual invention that made the early features so memorable. Robin Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

The A.F.T. was conceived by Movie and Television Producer Ely Landau (The Pawnbroker, Long Day's Journey into Night), who refers to the project as "legitimate film." Landau put together his distribution system in a series of conferences with theater owners in which he appealed "both to their consciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: To Open in Oshkosh | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Ionesco makes no mention of his playwriting in Present Past Past Present. In several passages he uses his symbol of the rhinoceros for those insensitive conformists, the 'New Men', who are the ogres of Ionesco's imagination, but never does he refer to the play Rhinoceros which was his first...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Present Past, Past Present | 11/24/1971 | See Source »

Sir: Rhinoceros-like she may be at times, but Bella Abzug [Aug. 16] is a real fighter for humanitarian democracy. She has everything it takes to expand a local constituency into a national following: education, professional expertise, an intense personal commitment, courage, integrity and, finally, something there has not been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1971 | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

Bella Abzug might dismiss that last part as sexist condescension, but then again she might not. For all her rhinoceros qualities, she is deeply feminine (pace, Women's Lib) and, as former Campaign Manager Doug Ireland says, "vulnerable as a lady." She recently withstood withering political satire at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Bellacose Abzug | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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