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Barnaby's confidence might be excessive, but it is definitely not unfounded. The netmen have been keying for today's match for the last month, while making a Sherman-like march through the ECAC, compiling a league-leading 4-0 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Netmen To Face Columbia In Ivy Showdown | 4/28/1973 | See Source »

Screenplay by ROBERT B. SHERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whitewash | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...RICHARD M. SHERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whitewash | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...scenarists, the Sherman brothers, are the songwriting team whose dwarf-sized talents were nurtured in the Disney forest (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks). They have cleared away plenty of room for lyrical reflections on such matters as existence ("Man's gotta be what he's born to be") and mortality ("Sooner or later, just like a patater, man's planted in his grave"). They even empty Tom's whitewash pot of its humor and fill it with one of their characteristically neologistic songs, Gratification-which is not exactly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whitewash | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character based on Mengers will soon appear in a new film called The Last of Sheila. Director Herb Ross describes the character as "human, gamy, but not common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet and Sour Sue | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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