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...this publicity," Dylan sniffed tiredly, following two performances in a single day. "Sometimes I think they're talking about somebody else. I take it as it comes, but I'm not certain it's beneficial to my life." He paused to rub a bare foot against his faded jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dylan: Once Again, It's Alright Ma | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...Merle Haggard runs two risks. First of all, one doesn't want to be labelled a victim of some twisted pop decadence, a sort of latent Alice Cooper fanatic who took a wrong turn. Even worse, the whole thing threatens to suggest the let's-sit-down- and-rub-shoulders-with-the-truckdrivers (they're so real) syndrome...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: An Apology for Merle Haggard | 10/11/1973 | See Source »

...Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

There, exactly, was the rub. The Fourth Amendment bans only "unreasonable" searches and seizures, and the reasonableness of actions connected with impending nuclear attack can scarcely be compared with the reasonableness of a burglary of a psychiatrist's office more than two months after the Pentagon papers had leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And Now a Right to Burgle? | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...Bogart. Why the Brattle brings this crowdpleaser back season in and season out I don't want to know. Why people pack the house I don't like, except on especially good days when nothing can phase me. Only then will the audience stock responses--"Play it, Sam", howls--rub off as some sort of togetherness high that is very very funny. On normal days the movie takes the most self-indulgent of campy spirits to be endured. Brattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

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