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Abetted by Candice Bergen, as a thrill-seeking but good-natured deb, they determine to crack the uncrackable safe. At this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Vault | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...Wayward Twitch...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Over 2000 Rowers Head for Charles | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

Over the three-mile course which begins at the B.U. Bridge, a bad stroke or a wayward twitch of the rudder can mean the loss of a few precious seconds or even the boat itself. More than one impressive pursuing crew has bullied its immediate leader to destruction upon the Charles' banks...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Over 2000 Rowers Head for Charles | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

...incessantly wayward, he glories so thoroughly - albeit temporarily - in the corruption of authority, that he becomes the object of outrage, and much of the film's capacity for empathy is lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Corruption's Toys | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...beginning of the century in the Ionian village of Skala, where he lived until 1914. The ravage delayed his return for 36 years, and sometimes he called himself a seafarer, perpetually seeking roots. The similitude aptly echoed reality, for Seferis traveled and he wrote--offering manuscripts like a wayward sailor tosses corked "bottles" in the sea on the chance they'll be retreived to mark his passage...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Climbing on Words | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

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