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...body in ballet. Weewis -the title's meaning is still its creator's secret-presents three couples who appear to exemplify the varying moods of love (definitely profane). The first couple (Gary Chryst and James Dunne) is composed of two Latinate boys in candy-striped leotards, who shuck and jive about the stage like bodega gauchos trying out for a revival of West Side Story. They end their number with a casually homoerotic hands-on-shoulders embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love on the Rock | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...change has come about both by necessity and choice. Partly it has resulted from the economic depression hanging over the movie industry, partly from a desire to shuck the formal, gaudy pastimes of old in favor of a more casual lifestyle. While stars who once made a million dollars a year are now frequently making less than half that, they are hardly hurting for a meal. But the economic crunch has taken its toll. Discotheques are closing, servants are being let go, and psychiatrists have more leisure time. Private jets and yachts are up for grabs. Hostesses are turning from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hollywood (Hot) Dog Days | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...that point, one vet broke from the march, pointed a finger in her face, and drawled, "Listen lady, I'd like you to know I'm directly descended from Martha Costa Washington, and I want you to know Vietnam is so full of shit, you can pack it and shuck it." The woman harrumphed...

Author: By Anthony Day, | Title: 1500 Vets March in First Day of Protest | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...Woodstock movie is being hailed as imaginative moviemaking. It's not; it's poorly shot, clumsily edited, has no new ideas about the event, nor any on how the event should be presented. If you were at Woodstock, you'll know the film for a shuck; if not, you'll suspect...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: 'Woodstock' on Film No Love for Rock | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...Woodstock movie is being hailed as imaginative movie-making. It's not: it's poorly shot, clumsily edited, has no new ideas about the event, nor any on how the event should be presented. If you were at Woodstock, you'll know the film for a shuck: if not, you'll suspect...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Woodstock at Cheri Theatres | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

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