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No evidence of that here. At Long Last Love is the untidy summation of a career that has become lost in synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing Taps | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Because West is a romantic, everything works out cozily in the end. That is to say, the plot is tidied up, despite a few corpses lying about, and most of the good guys live wealthily ever after. The untidy questions about terror, commerce and diplomacy remain, and the disappointing feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suitable for Framing | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

The legislators, irritated by Pug's unrelenting attacks on them, were not buying. When a three-judge federal panel in Columbia upheld the lower court, Ravenel's lone hope was a forlorn one-an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ruled in favor of a similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Quarterback Sneak | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

In domestic matters, Pompidou pushed for an expansionist economic policy that would modernize French industry and improve living standards. He was determined to avoid a repetition of the unrest and riots of 1968. Until last year his approach succeeded. But then France, as the rest of the non-Communist world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brave Struggle, Simple Farewell | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Fat, untidy and crapulous, Švejk is a natural disaster as a soldier. He drinks anything that is not nailed down, eats anything that is not moving, and flummoxes disciplinarians and exhorters by admitting everything instantly-always at great length and with illustrations. Hašek's Švejk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Czech 22 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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