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...working men who fall in with a band of greedy, manipulative working class women who operate a boarding house. Before getting too enthusiastic about Wertmuller, see this film: the characters are one-sided, the construction is sloppy and the ultimate lesson to be drawn would have appeared simplistic if Wert-muller hadn't lost it along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: film | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...only furthers the myth of a Berlin populated by a handful of manic-depressive refugees clothed in gray sweatshirts. To the 2 million-plus people living freely within the 185 square miles of West Berlin, your comments ring contrary to a firm belief- "Berlin ist eine Reise wert" (Berlin is worth a journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 20, 1976 | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Director Wertmuller invests the concentration-camp episodes with a power that reminds us how those images of horror have been turned into familiar cliches. One measure of Wert muller's talents is that she forges all these elements together so easily, probably because she has enjoyed such a varied career. Once an assistant to Fellini, Lina Wertmuller, 45, has directed the ater, mounted musicals, even created a television program of Italian pop tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Charnel Knowledge | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bible for Catholics | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

than war shall cover Thee all over, (Wert capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: The Future Holds Thee | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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