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...comedy. There is a small army of standard farce characters, including a jealous husband, a languid vamp, a preening gigolo. Weighed down with a pound or so of mascara, Manola Asensio was a wonderfully deadpan, sultry vamp, but the farce- predictable bedroom mix-ups, a boop-a-doop beachside romp-is forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: An Expense of Sprirt | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...film, unable to cope with the expansive length of Joyce's tour de force, concentrates on three of its most important sections: the separate appearances of Dedalus and Bloom and their subsequent meeting; their romp through Nighttown, Dublin's Combat Zone; and the concluding soliloquy of Molly Bloom. Despite the fact that the film switches the novel's setting to Dublin in the mid-sixties, it remains tolerably faithful to the spirit of the original. But it lacks Joyce's intensity; it can go no further than the flat visual presentation of events (particularly inadequate) since Joyce--almost blind--evoked...

Author: By Lawton F. Grant, | Title: Celluloid Monarch Notes | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

Michigan Tech earned the NCAA playoff spot by defeating Michigan State last weekend in a two-game series, in which the winner is decided by the total goals scored in the two contests. Tech outpointed State 12-10 in goals, after a 6-2 romp on Sunday...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Roth Earns All-New England Honors | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...Peter Dillon and Tony Leggett to place in up-coming Williams and Middlebury carnivals, but no one should expect to catch champion Darthmouth. The Big Green won their own carnival without America's top cross-country racer, Tim Caldwell, who was with the national team during last weekend's romp...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 2/12/1974 | See Source »

Cornell, sole owner of the Ivy cellar position and an 87-36 loser to Penn a week ago, hung on in the final half, though, repeatedly whittling the Harvard lead to 12 points to stave off the expected Crimson romp...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Cagers Crump Cornell, 74-63, Rise to Third Place in League | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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