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...Eliot was wont to note, April is the cruellest month, but with yesterday's 42-degree, 35-miles-per-hour bluster, Harvard spokesman Spence Fitzgibbons put it better: "It was a really rude...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

George Arnold turned the television set to the Red Sox game, made an about-face and slumped in the nearest chair. Well, George, how did you do today? "I just hit it rude," answered the Crimson's sixth-ranked linkster, "and shot an 83. That's the only...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Linksters Fall In Tri-Meet | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

...friend dies, you lose a friend," sighs Scottie, "but when you die, you lose all your friends." There's more in that than just a well-turned phrase. A few lines don't work, and the play could use some trimming before it settles down in New York. One rude piece of psychological claptrap ought to be immediately excised: one of those Death of a Salesman-type closet skeletons, involving the time when little Jud woke up and saw Daddy making love to a woman who wasn't Mommy. Like the self-indulgent closing scene, Slade doesn't need this...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...baseball jokes and drag jokes and hospital jokes. The worst lines are about sex; this may be the first film in years that stoops to making cracks about water beds. The funniest scenes-and there should have been more of them-take on the American medical profession. In the rude manner of Paddy Chayefsky's Hospital, House Calls suggests that doctors spend more time thinking about tax shelters and fancy cars than surgical procedures or professional ethics. The film's one outright hilarious character, played with vaudevillian relish by Art Carney, is a chief of surgery so senile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Couple | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...disco musical. It has more in common with such cheapie rock pictures as Rock, Rock, Rock and Rock Around the Clock, which Freed himself appeared in a generation ago. Like those films, American Hot Wax seems to have been thrown together in a few weeks; it relies on rude energy to overcome its essential slightness. Luckily, the energy is there-in the direction, some of the acting, and especially in the music. Any movie that features Chuck Berry stomping out Roll Over Beethoven and Jerry Lee Lewis igniting Great Balls of Fire cannot be a complete waste of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Follies | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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