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...props and stunt riders; all that is needed is a smallish garrison of redcoats, a brace of cameo parts (filled, with steely and rather contemptuous panache, by Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud), one or two sexual objects, a Napoleon, some rocks for the escape attempt and a sunset or two to be glowered at from cliff tops. Once these were assembled, Director Fielder Cook's imagination was set free to contemplate the psychology of the trapped Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Historical Stuffing | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...Anderson, on the sunset side of 50, has to get his herd of cattle to market. The hands he hired for the drive ran out on him when they heard about the gold strike upriver. There is not a man left in the territory to help him, so Wil turns to boys-eleven eager, callow youngsters. He teaches them a little about roping and riding trail. He hires a black man named Jebediah Nightlinger to tend the chuck wagon. Then, uneasy with the entire proposition, he sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up Absurd | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing in multi-lingual gibberish, thus marking the debut of Chaplin's voice in films. By the film's end, the tramp and the gamine walk off in the sunset, no doubt looking for other great movies...

Author: By Lawrence Bergreen, | Title: Chaplin's Times | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...Sunset Peak. Sandia scientists arrived at their remarkable findings by assembling the records of thousands of accidents in the laboratories for periods of up to 20 years and analyzing them with the aid of a computer. Plotting disabling injuries against the phases of the moon in which they occurred, for example, the researchers found "the possibility of a heightened accident susceptibility for people during the phase similar to that in which they were born, and for the lunar phase which is 180° away from that in which they were born." Equally significant, these accidents tended to peak in cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Moonstruck Scientists | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...Summer of Love in San Francisco had come and gone two years before, most of those still deeply committed to a no-compromise counter-cultural movement had long since taken to the hills to the North or the plains of New Mexico, and the streets of the Haight and Sunset Boulevard lay littered with the last pock-marked remains of hippie. Hippie was now the 95-lb. speed freak on the corner who hustled bad acid and talked non-stop about getting it all together "in a commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles...

Author: By John ANTHONY Day, | Title: Is California Dreamin' Becoming a Reality? | 12/10/1971 | See Source »

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