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...opening game of the twinbill saw a superb pitching duel between Harvard's Mike O'Malley and Cornell's Steve "The Hammer" Hamrick...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Last-Inning Rally Gives Crimson Nine 6-5 Win Over Cornell for Twinbill Split | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Wycherley made even his minor characters convincing and more than mere dramatic foils, but Turner's producation rarely allows them anything but sheer entertainment value. At this, however, they are superb, and David Natzler as Novel, "a pert railing fop and admirer of novelties" carries on his own one-man show...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: A Comedy of Airs | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

...visited me backstage that this was only because most of them had been unfamiliar with the term. What they had not realized was that here in America they had seen some of the greatest pantomimists of the century--Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy...those superb artists who created in the silent movie era, without benefit of the spoken word, a whole world of human prototypes in humorous, pathetic, tragic or hilarious situations in life--with which their audiences identified themselves...

Author: By Marcel Marceau, | Title: A Universal Language | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

...never astonished." I am only a third of a gentleman: I never hurry, but I always pay and I am often astonished. I am greatly astonished over the mentality of certain Americans. You have a President, one of the ablest in your history, who has talent, guts and a superb conception of international relations, but you will kill him. The whole Watergate business is a bagatelle. Instead of impeaching Nixon, change your Constitution, elect him for seven more years, and send to jail for anti-American activities everybody who is against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1974 | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

With The Godfather, Coppola became a superb film craftsman. Here, as before, he has had some excellent assistance-most notably that of Production Designer Dean Tavoularis and Editor Walter Murch, who worked not only on structuring the film but also on its disquieting sound track. Noises-odd and ominous, never quite real-become progressively more unsettling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sounds of Silence | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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