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What Coppola is attempting is a portrait of a world. The film has a warp in the story of young Vito Corleone and a woof in the story of his son Michael separated by about 30 years. Vito (Robert DeNiro) takes the first steps on the ascent from petty thief to capo di rutti capi in a series of flash-backs interspersed in the main action. Here, Michael (Al Pacino) has to deal with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing...
Commedia dell Pinkie is a bit of Mather House mime and madness that is a heart-rending illustration of the power of concrete courtyards and labyrinthine corridors of warp men's minds and sense of humor. Mather House Dining Room Friday and Saturday nights...
...this fear of success had irretreviably confused my psyche. Even one of my closest male friends concluded that "Cliffies" were generally fucked up. Not because we were aggressive or too smart, but because the social scene we had been raised in was prejudiced against intellectual women and bound to warp our psyches. Although he admitted that his girlfriend and I were exceptions, most "Cliffies" were a bit too strange for him. And many men were less willing to grant exceptions...
...week without an intervention by Henry Kissinger. After 15 months of bizarre skirmishing on the high seas, the third cod war between Britain and Iceland (TIME, June 4) was settled quietly in an exchange of notes. The war, which began in September 1972, ended after a total of 65 warp cuttings, 15 naval collisions or bumps involving British trawlers and Icelandic coast guard boats, the firing of 24 rounds of ammunition-live and blank. The peace also ended a threat by Iceland to shut down the NATO base at Keflavik. The breakthrough came last month after a meeting in London...
...house Saturday nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album plus TV. This all may be true, if "Texas Woman Blues" is any indication, it is. Mott the Hoople. Saturday...