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...waiter at a rustic country restaurant with a ritzy clientele gets involved in a grotesque food fight in the kitchen with the chef, who turns out to be his lover. The slapstick technique employed here went out of vogue in America at about the same time that Hal Roach stopped making Spanky and Our Gang films. After all, squids perched atop the suddenly toupee-less head of a middle-aged man are not necessarily funny. Nor is the scene in which a couple dickers with a sleazy film producer over a role in a pornographic film. As the scene unfolds...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Missing the Mark, Italian Style | 8/15/1978 | See Source »

Long active in episcopal committees, Quinn won by a vote of 146 to 112 over a relative newcomer, St. Paul's popular Archbishop John R. Roach, 56. Roach was promptly elected the bishops' vice president, giving the hierarchy's more liberal element a voice near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishops' Bishop | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...words of Harvard coach Bill McCurdy, Northeastern top gun John Flora "blossomed" on the way to first place with a blazing 23:39 finish. Bill Roach of Boston College finished second at a safe distance at 24:25, followed by a Brandeis duo consisting of Buddy Bostic (24:32) and Don Finelli...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: GBC'S Mixed Bag: Men Third, Women Win | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson harrier hung tough in the aftermath, however, and Eichner and Rafto managed to post excellent times of 4:33 and 4:37 respectively, at the mile mark. Sheehan ran extremely well for most of the race, dueling with B.C.'s Roach for possession of the second slot, until he tightened up in the last half mile and was passed by a group of runners...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: GBC'S Mixed Bag: Men Third, Women Win | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...clothes just for dancing. "The dress becomes your dancing partner," he says, and Photographer Francesco Scavullo claims that the "young and exciting fashions in the discos are the only clothes today." Dancing styles have progressed and mellowed. The hustle and the bus stop, the rope and the roach have largely been replaced in the past year by either a languid free-form oscillation or neojitter-bug. There is even an occasional foxtrot, Lindy or waltz-to the 2001 version of the Blue Danube. However the patrons dance, the new discos are designed, says Boston Disco Manager Mark Hugo, to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hotpots of the Urban Night | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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