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Pasquale Tato looks the part of Chee-Chee, but doesn't act it. His nervous semblance of bravado saps any conviction in his portrayal of Chee-Chee as a manipulator of deceptions; nor does he transform his uncertainty into the kind of brooding self-doubt that might have provided an alternate, though shaky, interpretation of a Chee-Chee torn in the existential dilemma...

Author: By Stephen Tifft, | Title: Pirandellian Calisthenics | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

...Bass because he thought it too abstract. It may be just as well: the movie is not substantial enough to support the kind of philosophical freight such a montage would imply. Phase IV works best as a weird thriller and as a showcase for Bass's talents, which transform a story that could have been entirely silly into a bit of necromancy that lingers like an omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE IV: The Ants Are Coming | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...prepared to participate in an operation of the EEC that will try to channel part of the oil-surplus money into the Common Market and transform it into loans to those EEC countries that need financing of their deficits. I think that the German signature to such an operation will mean something for those who are the lenders. It will solve only a small part of the global recycling necessity. Close cooperation between the U.S. and the leading European industrial countries as well as Japan is of the utmost importance if we want to control the economic development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Schmidt: Seeing Eye to Eye | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. When he was 18, Beirne (pronounced Burn) went to work as a telephone repairman earning 320 an hour; in 1937 he became president of a local affiliate of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; six years later he headed the N.F.T.W., and helped transform it into the C.W.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...bingen University was described as "devotedly Roman Catholic" although he has a deserved reputation as a radical for his criticism of papal infallibility. Howard University Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether-the only woman on the list-was cited for seeing traditional Christianity as "an ideology of oppressors" and trying to transform it into "a gospel of liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shapers and Shakers | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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