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Allen is always certain the drain will get plugged up and, sure enough, it does. Keaton has so far presented a less vividly defined image to the public, but there is something at once willful and flaky about her-she does not play realists.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen's Breakthrough Movie | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

At that point Robinson accepted the consensus typified by German Critic Werner Kummel's listing in 1963 (see chart). But, as "little more than a theological joke," he decided to investigate the arguments on the dating of all the books, a field largely dormant since the turn of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Testament Dating Game | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Drawing from Hardwick's powerful summary of this troubling figure's 42 years, my company sought a facile, shrinky key to Weil's life history of self-punishment: her insistence as a child that she always carry the heaviest bundles on family trips; her stubborn rejection of all bourgeois fashion...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: How Sound A Sacrifice? | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

By all accounts, Jimmy Carter knew there would be some hot reaction to his nomination of an old Georgia chum and political confidant, former Federal Judge Griffin Bell, as Attorney General. The transition team at the Justice Department had sent a memo to Plains warning of a storm of protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jimmy's Pal Rings a Bell, Off-Key | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Indirectly, Kate depends for her motivation on the cruelties of Baptista, Bianca and Bianca's suitors. But the Winthrop House actors play these parts with such exaggerated gestures that their deeper intents are not even revealed, much less frightening. Antonio Dajer's Baptista is a put upon father who never...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Pick a Shrew, Any Shrew | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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