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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ah, Poets | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...Band's routines may appear scatterbrain at times, but they always work out in the end. The Band disclaims any semblance to the hordes of uniformed, ultra-high precision bandsmen who blanket the field from one end of the other at halftime in Ohio State's nationally televised spectacles...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Harvard Band: After Today, What? | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented as a TIME cover subject) keeps a mistress, she is apt to be a glorious scatterbrain who ultimately meets a fellow of her own age and sends the giant back to his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Executive's Sweet | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

Doris, having graduated from unimpeachable virginity to semi-approachable young widowhood with every girlish giggle intact, embodies outdoorsy allure as a scatterbrain who dotes on talking birds and tropical fish. While conducting tours at the space center, she telephones her dog Vladimir several times daily, just the sort of thing to alarm the security people. Doris ultimately proves that she is not an enemy agent. She runs amuck in a remote-controlled speedboat, does battle with a ferocious robot vacuum cleaner and sprawls aloft in an antigravity chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Space Chase | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...amateur cast would find its talents inhibited by repeated mechanical difficulties, and a heavy load falls upon the Playhouse's experienced wheelhorses. Burt French, Katherine Whitfield, Carol Wheeler, and John Rand '43 support the double triangle around which the plot moves. Adele Thane as a scatterbrain middle-aged wife is glaringly miscast; she parboils the comic two thirds of her part and convincingly portrays a dramatic third act. Make-up difficulties hamper Robert Bastille'43, for his audience cannot forget that they see a Harvard man disguised as a sexagenarian...

Author: By T. S. R., | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/29/1942 | See Source »

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