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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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It's obvious both stars saw this film as a vehicle to advocate causes they care about, but they are good-natured about it. Writer Garland and Director Pollack had the sense to give Horseman the tone of a pop fable; they stress entertainment over preachment. A romantic intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

It used to be that special effects were created to serve a movie's story, to permit the camera to capture that which could not be found-or recorded on film-in the natural world. But now, in the postStar Wars era, stories are created merely to provide a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

It turns out that the villainous UFO is not manned. This is very peculiar, since in the film's opening sequence it is full of weirdos. By the time the Enterprise closes in on it, the creatures have all disappeared, victims not of the story line but of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Some of the metaphorical questions that used to get raised by the Enterprise's intergalactic encounters on the old TV show were at least a little more interesting than this stale intelligence-vs.-emotion debate. One suspects a sellout to the Me Generation's self-absorbed search for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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