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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Lése-majesté? Not really, for these newer creations are merely variations, updated for life in the '70s, of the kind of durable, reliable characters an older generation of stars created. They are people who suggest simply by their changeless presences that there may be traditions and behavioral conventions that one can rely on in a pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...There are a lot of ethnic neighborhoods in this country; there's nothing wrong with that per se," says Trillo. "In public housing the question is, do you want to give a government subsidy to start a Spanish ghetto (in public housing)--with no bad connotations to the word? Black pressure groups will push for affirmative action in the smaller, more desirable housing projects, but Hispanics are not interested, Trillo says. In fact, the racial integration concept in public housing may be responsible for hostility between blacks and Hispanics...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Spanish Streets | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...that anyone else under John Clark's flaccid direction is giving her much acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rebel in Arms | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...host's foremost concern is the massive lack of intelligence which must, he feels, have motivated a guest to arrive at such a respectable household at such an hour. The problem intrigues him so much, in fact, that he seems to lose all concern for me per se. He stumps down the stairs and walks right by me into the dining room ruminating with great enthusiasm on the evidence that it is possible to be born human without any brains at all. Having nothing better to do, I start up the stairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...players: Bob Rizzo (QB), John Spagnola (34-catch SE), John Pagliaro (987-yard TB), Rick Angelone (FB), Bill Crowley (LB), Paul Denza and Bob Skoronski (DTs), Kurt Nondorf (CB). LAMBERT TROPHY 1. Colgate (8-0) 66 1/2 pts. 2. Penn State (8-1) 651/2 3. Pitt (7-1-1) 57 5. Yale (6-2) 49 6. Brown (6-2) 37 7. Army (6-3) 28 8. B.C. (5-3) 27 9. Rutgers (6-3) 19 10. Dartmouth (6-2) 15 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

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