Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch the Cubs, unless you're in the Wrigley bleachers with a frosty can of Stroh's. Bob Sutter just does not have a bionic arm--I don't think...
...Watch Montreal. Why? Chris Speier, Dave Cash, Rudy May, Ross Grimsley, Steve Rogers, Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Warren Cromartie and Ellis Valentine. Don't be surprised if they sing "Oh, Canada" before the playoff games this fall...
...inner-city factories. Says he: "Businessmen come to visit those plants, and they ask, ' Jeez, don't you have terrible trouble with people breaking your windows and smearing your walls?' The answer is no- because if somebody gets a notion to do that, they had better watch out. People in the neighborhood protect the plant. It's a source of pride as well as jobs. They feel it is theirs...
...never understood, shrugs Carol Burnett, the success of her CBS variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might...
...fault lies not with Hoffman's performance, but with the movie's narrow, spartan script. The screenwriters are so eager to avoid sentimentality that they turn journalistic objectivity into a form of dramatic Novocain. As we watch Burglar Max Dembo doggedly pursue his career of luckless crime, it is impossible to feel anything but numbness. Apparently the writers believe it is enough to demonstrate that Max is a classic recidivist, trapped forever in a cycle of antisocial behavior, but they can't get off so easily. A character as alienated as Max, however realistically drawn, becomes compelling...