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Nickelodeon makes use of a number of incidents reported to Bogdanovich by such pioneers as Directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. But more important to the film's relative success is the director's warm, but not sloppy feeling for the very earliest period in film history. In...

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

With five minutes left in the half, the Radcliffe five had allowed only three Bruin baskets while scoring 17 points, despite numerous turnovers. The team played sloppy defense in the waning minutes of the half which Brown took advantage of to narrow the margin to 21-16 at the intermission...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Radcliffe Five Trounces Brown, 58-35 For Fourth Victory Without a Defeat | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

The material is packed with possibilities, but in most cases the execution of ideas is sloppy and unimaginative and the tone is annoyingly self-congratulatory. Concepts clever enough to sustain several paragraphs are stretched into five page disasters. Here are some classic examples of the calculated groan:

Author: By Ruth E. Liebmann, | Title: Titters | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

At best, Burt's methods were incredibly sloppy. The raw test sheets on the twin studies were among papers stuffed into half a dozen tea chests and later destroyed. Many of his professional articles do not give primary data, referring readers to unpublished reports. Some of those reports, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Taint of Scholarly Fraud | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

The first act begins unimpressively enough. After a monologue by Bolt's Brechtian narrator-figure, The Common Man, follows a scene marked by particularly sloppy blocking, which has Miller putting his arms around everyone in sight. But the action soon starts to pick up when More confronts Cardinal Wolsey (craftily...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Saints and Sinners | 12/4/1976 | See Source »

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