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The cast, besides the commendably sardonic Finch, includes some always reliable character types (Griffith, Hayden, Graham Crowden, Patrick Magee, George Coulouris), and Miss Runacre, a skillful actress, who looks smashing into the bargain. The Last Days of Man on Earth, fractured and funny, is an authentic curiosity. Pace Woody Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funny Future Shock | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

While that love has cooled somewhat, the exhibition, sponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, is appropriate. Without the help of the French, the Colonies might never have won the Revolution, and without the skillful persuasion of Franklin, who went to Paris as ambassador in 1776, the French might never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Founding Fathers Abroad | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

JOSEPH LANE KIRKLAND, 52, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO and President George Meany's right-hand man. Kirkland is known in labor circles as a skillful behind-the-scenes negotiator.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Examining the Examiners | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

WHEN A NEW Japanese product comes onto the American market, its skillful design, its inexpensiveness, and its dubious durability are matched only by its clever advertising. Frank Gibney, the author of a forthcoming book, Japan, The Fragile Superpower, wrote recently that "the Japanese continue to maintain that a good Japanese...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: The Box-Man Numbeth | 1/10/1975 | See Source »

The larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Monster Mash | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

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