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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wasn't Candid Camera itself often cruel?) Reducing Sally to emotional trauma several times as a vehicle for parody is a good example of such pitilessness. The film's last scene, in which her attempt to kill the faithless Joey evokes only audience guffaws as the gun fails to shoot, adds insult to injury; this is the major emotional crisis of Sally's life, and Morrissey turns it into a farce. Likewise, the constant use of the Motel Lady's physical ugliness as a stimulus to laughter is on a level with the playground viciousness young children often direct towards...

Author: By Kevin J. Obrien, | Title: Torture by Heat | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...Gorham, Kans., to shoot a new Peter Bogdanovich movie called Paper Moon, Ryan O'Neal carried on devotedly with his newest costar. That was only natural, since she is his nine-year-old daughter Tatum (by his first wife, Joanna Moore). The pair amused a group of school children by performing balancing tricks along a deserted railroad track, and when Tatum earned more applause than her father, O'Neal remarked, "I guess it's natural with her. Her mother was an actress and so was my mother. It's in the family." Asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 30, 1972 | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school, you're really in trouble. You might get paddled or have to work in the cafeteria all of lunch period, so you don't get a chance to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Put It All Together | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Horn called the whole affair a flukey day in which "the first two races were something of a crap shoot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Sailors Lose to MIT; Harvard Drops Donaghy Bowl | 10/25/1972 | See Source »

Like Flip Wilson on NBC, Cosby uses his hour as a showcase for black talent, with some of the best singers and dancers on the tube or anywhere else. They shoot out 1,000 watts every time they snap their fingers-and very nearly short-circuit the tube with electrical overload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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