Word: unveils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the director never does get around to telling the story of either character's personal apocalypse. Instead, he uses part of Willard's river journey as a pretext to unveil a series of large-scale, self-contained set pieces-an impersonal tour of the war front. Though these sequences do not add up to a movie, they are feverishly imagined and brilliantly shot (by Bertolucci's favorite cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro). Indeed, the first of these war scenes may be the most spectacular battle ever created for a film. With a megalomaniacal officer (Robert Duvall) leading...
...show-biz bash called "America's Salute to the Astronauts"; any of them who turn up have been promised a flight to San Clemente, Calif., for a poolside lunch with former President Richard Nixon. At Chicago's Adler Planetarium, Apollo 15 Astronaut David Scott will unveil a moon rock, while New York City's Hayden Planetarium and St. Louis' McDonnell Planetarium are staging programs that include everything from learned discussions to loose-limbed disco...
...just as well give lessons in Kabuki dancing. On Tuesday, Happy Days leads into Laverne & Shirley, which is followed by Three's Company and Taxi. Wednesday is a night for everybody: Eight Is Enough, the quintessential family show, introduces Charlie's Angels and Vega$, both of which unveil as much skin as the network censors will allow. On Thursday, Mork & Mindy is already so strong that it gave Angie, the show that now follows it, a 41 share of the audience on its premiere...
...Weissman is typical of a new breed of sharp-tongued television writers who showed last week that the docile, fluffy and often self-serving TV coverage of the past is fast disappearing. Their forum was a notorious newspaper junket, the semiannual network extravaganza to unveil new shows. Fifteen years ago, when such "press tours" were inaugurated, only two of the 40 television writers came at their papers' expense. This time upwards of 60% of the more than 80 critics were listed on network master sheets as POWS, an ironic acronym for paying their own way. (For some East Coast...
Harvard's multi-flex should be in its full kaleidoscopic splendor as Joe Restic is planning to unveil a couple of new offensive sets in an attempt to dazzle Cornell's defense. "It could be very exciting," Restic says with tongue in cheek...