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Tonight the Plaza is showing two by Truffaut The Wild Child, one of the best, an unsentimental detailed and narratively pure chronicle of Dr. Itard's attempts to tram a wolf child for human society in Enlightenment France, and The Bride Wore Black, one of his least, a stale tale of vengeance dedicated to Hitchcock Friday. Red Desert, middle period Antomennui Sarris's phrase) with beautiful color is paired with Juliet of the Spirits Felinis unsuccessful attempt to do for a frustrated house wife what 8 1/2 did for a castrated male artist leading as well into the garish technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Film Festivals" | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

...point) into a cell block in the Kampala central police station. There were no beds, only one chair and four toilets. The prisoners, including a retired British diplomat, his crippled wife, and a family with two small children, had to sleep on the concrete floor, which was sticky with stale urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: The Black Hole of Kampala | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...again this fall. While a show like CBS's Maude expands the limits of usable domestic subject matter, other new entries like ABC's Paul Lynde Show and CBS's Bob Newhart Show extend the already overextended tradition of stale sitcoms-symptoms of TV's banal-retention syndrome. More colorful, if not more original, is Anna and the King (of Siam) on CBS. It has the benefit of Samantha Eggar in the Gertrude Lawrence-Deborah Kerr role, and Yul Brynner in the Yul Brynner-Yul Brynner role, even if it does make the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Also on the Fall Schedule: The Not So Bold Ones | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

Brigham's sugar cones are stale. Cones are $.25 and $.30 except for the natural flavors which cost an extra nickel...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Edens of Hors d'Oeuvres and Ice Cream | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

...stale piece of french bread, topped with cold melted cheese and bloated with dressing loomed like King Kong on the pile of lettuce and called itself a crouton...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Fair Find, Middling French | 7/7/1972 | See Source »

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