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...comfort programming can make studio accountants uncomfortable. Starsky and Hutch did O.K. as a Ben Stiller--Owen Wilson romp last year, but many TV blowups--like The Mod Squad, My Favorite Martian and Steve Martin's Sgt. Bilko--tanked. (Then again, Martin bringing his spin to Inspector Clouseau in this summer's remake of The Pink Panther--that has us smiling already...
...three of before he was out. But at the artificial-turfed, fiber-glass-roofed Metrodome in Minneapolis, the site of this year's Major League All-Star game, the talk last week was about a different sort of strike. The outcome of the contest, a dull 6-1 romp by the National League' was overshadowed by the previous day's announcement that the players intend to walk off the diamonds on Aug. 6 unless they can resolve their differences with club owners over salaries and pension benefits. At issue is the owners' contention that the business of baseball, despite...
Beyond Power is part ideological tract, part history of the world according to feminism. In a brisk romp through the ages, readers learn that an 18th century woman playwright, Olympe de Gouges, came down firmly on both sides of the French Revolution, and that Crystal Eastman founded the American Civil Liberties Union but got no credit for it. No male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems...
With chic cheek-bones, a jawline that could slice bologna and a warm voice that could go shrill in odd moments, Carole Lombard was perfect casting for this 1934 romp, directed by Howard Hawks, about a Broadway director (John Barrymore in all his spuming comic majesty) and the actress who was his protege and is now his career lifeline. The film was a career maker for Lombard, who died in a plane crash...
...fascinating afternoons is spent in the village of Fouloust, where the argan tree, prized for its oil, is indigenous. Village women show how they crack the argan nuts in the traditional way between stones. After a lunch of grilled fish, hop on the back of a camel for a romp on a deserted beach...