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...been called for traveling and will be out of the game for a while," quipped Henry Kissinger as the Harlem Globetrotters made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1977 | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...gunmen sent out by the competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The First Picture Shows | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Slapstick, Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (5) 6-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (7) 7-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 8-The Users, Haber (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (10) 10-Dolores, Susann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Slapstick, Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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