Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VARIOUS subplots and minor characters converge at the opening of Susan's first exhibit. Her obnoxious lover makes up with the gift of a baby duck (she really does look like a duck), and even her parents come to the opening out of nowhere...
...Portuguese government, bent on freeing its colonial possessions, did not fall over itself thanking the U.S. for its support. And, by isolating itself from the national liberation movements during the pre-independence period in Angola, the U.S. eliminated its chances of playing a constructive mediating role among the various political factions to help bring Angola toward independence through a negotiated, democratic transition. Instead, the U.S. attempted to regain a political foothold in Angola through covert support of the poorly organized, politically suspect FLNA and UNITA forces...
Many of Zuckerman's criticisms have been considered in the past by members of various Nobel committees; in fact, the present article developed from interviews with laureates and Nobel officials that she conducted for her 1977 study of the Nobels, Scientific Elite. As Zuckerman acknowledges, Nobel judges generally argue that the roster of prizewinners is not intended as an all-inclusive list of the best scientific work. But Zuckerman fears that unless eligibility becomes wider, the premier reputation of the Nobels is bound to decline. However the Nobel Foundation eventually responds to her criticisms and those of others...
...both daring and first-rate. Altman has somehow made an ensemble out of a group that includes (in no particular order of significance) Lillian Gish, Pat McCormick, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Dina Merrill, Nina van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton, Mia Farrow, Geraldine Chaplin, Desi Arnaz Jr., Amy Stryker, Paul Dooley, various veterans of his stock company and a title card full of newcomers. They are all wonderful. If someone deserves to be singled out, it is Carol Burnett, who plays the bride's up tight but restless mother. For her to appear in this film took guts...
After undermining the taste, intelligence and dental hygiene of American children every Saturday morning for a generation, commercial television may have discovered a way to make amends: news for kids. In recent years the networks have been experimenting with various brief news updates and didactic entertainment specials for younger viewers.* But so far, TV has produced nothing for children quite so grown up as CBS's newborn 30 Minutes...