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...look Italian by wildly gesticulating and screaming 'Brava, Brava.' Bertolucci also drags out an antiquated collection of cliches about opera and its fans. His women parade about a la Gertrude Stein and partake of lesbian love with decadent Italian countesses. His men lisp on about 'darlin' Caterina and swish about backstage. It would be funny if it weren't so offensive...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Mooning Over Mom | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

Seiler could hear pieces of the disintegrating satellite swish overhead. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Skylab's Spectacular Death | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Swish. The guys could have used a Caryn Curry around during a few games this year...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: CARYN CURRY: Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man,' But Sparks Rise of Women's Sports | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

Once you've gotten to the Garden, it will be easy to find your way back tomorrow night for "Dribble, dribble, there's Cowens in the key, SWISH!!!" The Celtics will open their season against the Cleveland Cavaliers Friday as the NBA swings into action. If you're an intense Garden-er then hang around for Saturday night's Celtic contest versus Houston, and then catch the Bruins again Sunday, when they host Toronto...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Out of the Mothballs and Onto the Ice | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...anything but a female detective. They are all uninspiring people, leaving you sitting in your seat, as the lights come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool, (oh, so cool) figure, lighting a cigarette for Bogart under the bar with one swish movement, finally winning his affection in To Have and Have Not through pure, unadulterated strength (remember that word?). Or Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib carrying out a masterful delivery on the plight of abused wives to a jury which her defendant, against Spencer Tracy's efforts to convict her for shooting...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: 'New Women' In Film | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

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