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...lots to gain. The treatment of Freed points up the main feature of this movie, its defusing of almost all controversial issues at the time with palpable, very nearly relentless innocence. This spell of innocence is not perfect. Tim McIntyre as Freed drinks and smokes (he doesn't swear though) and Chuck Berry is wonderfully crude, but these things are overshadowed by the innocence of the fans and performers who populate the film...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Way We Weren't | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...watch the icemen skate against B.U., Northeastern in the Beanpot, and last night against Cornell, and you swear to yourself that this team looks as much like the one that lost to B.C. twice, and Northeastern once as the zamboni resembles an Audi...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'Something in the Way We Lose' | 2/24/1978 | See Source »

...meaningful work, but here, as in all his other films, Russell's only evident meaning lies aching behind his zipper. "Was it too much for you?" Oliver Reed asks Alan Bates after they finish a wrestling match in the raw, the homosexual hints dripping off their bodies faster than swear. Then the line pops up again, this time after Reed has been rollicking in the snow with Glenda Jackson: "Was it too much for you," he asks her, as the irony subtly smashes our way. This is too much, period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...steel industry is questionable. The Treasury Department will have to thrash out pricing problems that approach the metaphysical. According to the way they add up the numbers, for example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Some Reassurance for Steel | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...control that he is to the point of being damn near perfect. The slender, curly red-haired, apple-pie faced Herold strikes a thoroughly All American image--he's modest, he breaks out in a face-wide grin at the slightest provocation, and he doesn't kick water coolers, swear at referees. chase women, or butt in line at the Coop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herold for the Defense | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

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