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...Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky moments of domestic comedy involving the protagonist, his grandfather and his live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage a trois. The old gent is played by the great director King Vidor, who may have given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Mar. 8, 1982 | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Then you go and talk to Nadia Gould and she tells you about abortion, motherhood and adoption, and you go to Cabot and look at fetuses in the books there and walk homes to your room still not telling anyone because you know they'll think you're stupid, forgetting how many times they've worried for a few weeks about a late period and begun to think about abortion and dream about marriage and single motherhood and babies and been relieved in the end when the blood flowed again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abortion | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

Turtel brought home $50 and a contest record from the event, which be called an "intellectual challenge "Strategy is vital to the successful pizza muncher, he claimed "There's no place there for stupid eaters...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Harvard Senior Munches To Victory | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...movie, must have learned the same rule. Cannery Row looks very pretty, but it moves about as fast as continental drift, and it's a lot less fun to watch. When, after two excruciatingly boring hours, it finally grinds to its inevitable happy ending, we too are left feeling stupid but unruffled. A movie has drifted in and out of our heads, and all that's left is a vague taste of crab...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Cinematic Continental Drift | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

...Luojin, a Peking writer, was mortified by her second husband Cai Zhongpei. In fact, she was sure she had married a bumpkin. He never seemed to talk about aesthetics and the finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Untying the Knot in China | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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