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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Robert Lowell, Bly sensed that what America had come to was inevitable, because of what it had been, a "torpid land" where "The stones bow as the saddened armies pass...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Looking In Robert Bly tonight at 8, Emerson 105 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...film he made had not proved to be woefully inept, its theme might have made it grand, tragic and compellingly romantic. As it is, it merely gives Faye Dunaway a chance for a last, torpid, tuberculous fling. TB may or may not be the unnamed mortal disease that she has. She behaves pretty much like a willful child playing hooky from the sanatorium. As her erotic partner, Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Torpid Last Fling | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...hunger investigation did help pressure the White House into formulating a much broader food-distribution program for the poor than had previously been envisioned. Vigorous Senate opposition to the anti-ballistic missile system forced the Administration to overhaul the plan and is now delaying approval of the new proposal. Torpid and disorganized as it seems, Congress nonetheless retains considerable power-far more, in fact, than some of its own senior members are willing to exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CONGRESS: THE LONG, SLACK SEASON | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Amazon Triumphant. It may be a 90-degree climb. In her latest film, 100 Rifles, she plays a Yaqui Indian temptress romanced by a U.S. lawman (Jim Brown). Her accent, like her blouse, keeps slipping; her emotional range is strictly Mount Rushmore. Yet she provides the torpid western with its most convincing scene. Under a water tower, showering in a shirt, she stops a train dead in its tracks. 100 Rifles makes it official: Raquel wet and draped is sexier than most actresses nude and dry. Along the way, audiences can review Raquel's entire body of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: Sea of C Cups | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...believe for a single moment that one will be spared those moldy chestnuts that New York play-scripters toss at Philadelphia is to guess wrong. Sample torpid humor: "At the stage when most men prosper, I live in Philadelphia on three dollars a day." The musical score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers. There is a degradation of intellect, taste and dignity about the entire musical. The men involved were the architects of a great republic, men of passion, probity and reason. Touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Birth of a Jape | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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