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Along the way he entertains various fantasies of telling off not just the client but the whole damn world. That's about it. Di rector Trent has no sense of style; Writer Kleinschmitt pencils in obscenities for his characters to spout instead of lines that the actors might savor delivering. Neither Dern nor Ann-Margret is ever able to get into character. They try gamely, but they remain sociological abstractions pasted into a tasteless, materialistic milieu that has been overexplored by novelists and moviemakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fidgets at 40 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Strasnick has spent three or four days putting the pieces of the cake together--it had to be baked in sections. Three electrical fountains will spout water over...

Author: By G. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Let Them Eat Boston's Cake | 5/1/1980 | See Source »

...tide of nostalgia. The man, after all, had occupied the Prime Minister spot for 11 years. His self effacement successfully dispelled the harmful image of arrogance. Suddenly, he appeared as the elder statesman, firmly etched in history, and the media which expressed antagonism during the May campaign began to spout superlatives. Trudeau knew he had the budget gambit, and he knew the Liberal party could not replace him in the event of a winter election...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Trudeau Redux | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

From the tops of their heads Did they mutter and spout, And erudite words Came tumbling...

Author: By Sue Brown, | Title: The Professor Who Has Everything | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...their leaders try to project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions of members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Klan Rides Again | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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