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...Coolidge inserts herself directly into her own film, as interrogator and fond grand child and, most tellingly, as explorer, searching for a way back into her own past. This same personal approach is carried even further in the fourth of the quartet by Martin Scorsese's (Mean Streets) singular Italianamerican, which is a portrait of Scorsese's parents as well as a rough sketch for part of the director's autobiography. Scorsese portrays his parents not only through their own reminiscences about growing up and marrying on New York's Lower East Side but through their...
What is "the media"? Usually, a contumacious cliché. Often, a grammatical abomination. The word is eternally plural - literally, more than one "medium." In the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review] University of Wisconsin Communication Professor George Bailey deplores the persistent and growing tendency to use the word with singular incorrectness. Echoing a TIME Essay (June 7, 1971), he attributes that offense to something more ominous than doubtful command of the mother tongue. "People who write or say 'The media is against Nixon' or 'The media exploits children' actually conceptualize the media as a singular, unitary...
Hard work-sure. Moments of anger and frustration-certainly. But for the most part, as he has gone about his remarkable rounds he has produced a lot of peace, and injected quite a bit of good sense, all the while casting a wry eye over the singular doings of mankind...
...neighborhood" when Nixon arrived in Brussels and so hopped up from Spain for a few minutes' chat with his friend.) The President's meetings are small and confidential. His right to stay above and beyond the masses is absolute. It is one of the ironies of the singular career of Republican Nixon that palace life fits him better in many ways than life at the White House...
...start. On that date the new World Football League will make its debut in five cities, beginning a five-month season of midweek games. That odd, extended schedule will not be the league's only novelty. Determined to upstage the N.F.L., the W.F.L. will offer everything from singular team names (among them the Chicago Fire and the Southern California Sun) to sudden death overtime, two-point conversions and other rules designed to put some added razzle-dazzle into the game...