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Harry is also the victim of Sybylla's impetuousness. In one vivid scene, she and Harry are in a row boat, Sybylla reciting poetry and Harry playing the gondolier. Sybylla scoffs at the conventional romanticism of the scenario. Speaking in a bemused fashion, Sybylla begins rocking the boat, causing it to overturn. The two lovers fall into the river and emerge wet and dripping; Harry attempts a kiss, but Sybylla runs away shouting, "Race you to the house...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: An Almost-Brilliant Movie | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...film, "The End of the Dialogue," was smuggled out of South Africa for showing in the West, Ann Spader, a spokesman for the International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa--which owns the film--said yesterday. The documentary won an Emmy award in 1971 for its vivid portrayal of the oppressed conditions of Black, Coloured and Indian South Africans, sharply contrasted against the affluence of white Afrikaaners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teach-In on Southern Africa Portrays Life Under Apartheid | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

...them published; many of the sharpest barbs in the original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where he is depicted as a vain, posturing maneuverer who manipulates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sharp Blows at the High Bench | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...transformation involved far more than the post-party droops, more even than anguish at the loss of customers and of a brief but vivid camaraderie. There was, as well, a sort of collective separation anxiety-a strictly modern malaise that occurs when a place newly spoiled by celebrity is suddenly disconnected from the media's great glory machine. Lake Placid's inevitable plunge began when TV and the whole journalistic shebang unplugged itself and disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Downhill Plunge, All the Way | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...that is why the Pompidou Center is crowded. Dali's public hopes to meet a mind which fulfills its two ruling clichés about artists-the painter as old master (Raphael, Rubens) and the artist as freak (Van Gogh, Rimbaud). Dali gives his public a tacky, vivid caricature of both while fulfilling neither. No modern painter has armored himself more assiduously in mediocrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Soft Watch and the Beady Eye | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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