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...rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter, and two "explicit" sex scenes totaling 30 seconds. One is a bedroom romp involving Alex and two willing girls; the other shows soldiers raping a girl. The changes, Warner Bros, hopes, will attract a wider audience. Some theaters refuse to show X movies, and an increasing number of newspapers do not advertise them. Kubrick, who selected the footage to be excised, believes that the change will have scant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Clockwork Clipped | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, Jason Miller's That Championship Season and Richard Wesley's The Black Terror. In a season when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp now has one of the hottest tickets in town in Two Gents. To multiply his injury to Broadway's pride, this year his plays monopolized the major theater prizes, taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Joe Papp: Populist and Imperialist | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

After losing to UConn Harvard had to go right into a game with Northeastern. The Crimson scored 15 runs in the second and third innings to victimize a much weaker pack of Huskies, and every regular had at least one hit in the 16-8 romp...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: UConn Stops Crimson Nine in NCAA Playoff | 5/31/1972 | See Source »

...millionaire tyrant named Theo Van Horn (Welles). Papa has used his fortune to re-create meticulously the year 1925. "It was an exciting time to be alive," he explains over his nightly gourmet repast, glaring balefully around the table at anyone who might offer a contradiction. Charles has to romp about the estate in knickers, but takes some solace in sculpting huge, brooding Olympian figures. Helene is something of a stiff, a quality convincingly conveyed by Miss Jobert, who shuffles through the film in a state of saucer-eyed rigor mortis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out of Control | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...loaded situation with another one in the fourth after Stoekel had singled and scored for the third time in the game. In the fifth Brayton doubled and McGugan homered, and the Crimson got two unearned runs off of the fourth Cornell pitcher in the sixth to round out the romp...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Crimson Nine Lose Lead With Split | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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