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WITH THIS SAME sardonic mischievousness werealize in retrospect Borowczyk has done a whole number on "artsy" filmotography that will probably keep duped "cinema" students taking copious notes. Freudian symbolism gushes from every object close-up: the postcard nudes looking like overripe cherubs, the town philosopher walking his black Great Dane...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Zhivago That Sizzles | 11/16/1976 | See Source »

The most enthusiasm expressed for Carter's performance came from the Democratic majority leader of the House of Representatives, Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill: "I thought Carter creamed him." Independent Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who was not allowed to participate in the debate, gave it a typically sardonic review. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: When Their Power Failed | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Like Moreno, almost everyone in the cast is a veteran of the original Broad way production. Richard Lester, who seems to work almost as fast as Googie Gomez talks (his last movie, Robin and Marian, was released in March), keeps the proceedings right on his customary sardonic course. Lester obeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bubble Bath | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

He is also the bemused, sardonic connoisseur of everything that suits his appetite. A gourmet when it comes to pheasant, a gourmand when it comes to tamales, a consumer of fine wines and Santa Ines rum, he can deliver laughably erudite and baroque speeches or lead Indian troops on a...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: Toucans and Hurricanes | 5/26/1976 | See Source »

Seedy Set. In the irreverent MN2 mix, serious news is usually engulfed by the fanciful. Stripper Fanne Fox once delivered the weather report; Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack analyzed the New Hampshire primary results; Actress Terry Moore submitted to a polygraph test about shipboard sex with Howard Hughes. Porn Queen Amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Following Mary | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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