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...excellent as Roberta, whose task it is to win Jack's compliance in a marriage which will complete his emasculation. Jack, played with flair by Bernie Duffy, balks, then gradually weakens as Roberta titillates him with stories about a swimming guinea pig, a drowning baby and a Phoenix-like stallion. The last sequence in which Roberta snares Jack with this chimera of immortal virility is worth to anyone the price of admission...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: The Theatregoer Jack, or The Submission/The Bald Soprano at the Old West Church until Oct. 31 | 10/7/1970 | See Source »

Cable dies as must have been preordained: a motorcar starts rolling down a sandhill and the frontiersman, dealing with the machine as if it were an unruly stallion, is run down by progress. It is a measure of Peckinpah's great skill that he makes such a mechanical symbolic device not only work but seem perfectly fitting and inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back-Room Ballad | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...cancer; in Manhattan. Though married to Peter A.B. Widener II, heir to the racing and breeding dynasty, the beautiful socialite was determined to make it on her own; under her own colors, she bred and raced such horses as Hula Dancer and Dan Cupid. Her greatest was the stallion Polynesian, winner of the 1945 Preakness and sire of the magnificent Native Dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 16, 1970 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...State. In a one-room schoolhouse, Joyce Carol's writer's reflex quickly asserted itself. She cannot recall a time when she was not setting down or thinking about a story. Her first submitted novel -250 pages devoted to a dope addict redeemed by getting a black stallion-was rejected by a New York publisher as too depressing for the 15-year-old market. Joyce Carol quietly accepted the verdict, though she was in a better position to judge. She was 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing as a Natural Reaction | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

...feuding families, a fact that only adds zest to Jane's passion. In a singular frenzy, she burns down Peter's stable while Peter is still inside trying to save his favorite horse. The horse lives, but Peter perishes. Unfazed, Jane gets hung up on his black stallion. It's all terribly kinky, with Peter in his leather pants, Jane in her Story of O décolletage, and the stallion with his quivering nostrils and muscular flanks-a porno graphic My Friend Flicka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Two Dead Spirits Out of Three | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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