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...this deservedly respected writer-director's first entirely serious film, a faint hope stirs. Perhaps he is merely setting up the biggest Woody Allen joke of them all, since this kind of talk, and film making, is one of his best satirical subjects. Alas, the snapper never comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkest Woody | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...title of the song is the real snapper, an old tough-guy cliche flipped around and twisted like a blade ?Only the Good Die Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Philadelphia is known for its soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoagie City Hero | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...notice that Brain was lining up so far behind the center! This began during training camp when the Harvard centers were complaining to Coach Joe Restic that Buckley's fingernails were too long and their pants kept getting ripped when Buckley lined up directly behind the snapper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail Chauvinism | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Good Neighbors Mean Good Business | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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