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"She is a female misogynist masquerading as a political crusader," complains London Critic Alexander Walker, unfurling a battle flag that attracts many allies in America. Feminist Author Ellen Willis complains about the "perverse symbolism" in last year's Swept Away, claiming Wertmuller "panders to two classic male-supremacist lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Irresistible Force and the Immutable Object | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

Died. Willis ("Ray") Nance, 62, a versatile musician who growled on the trumpet and wailed jazz on the violin for 23 years with Duke Ellington's band; after a long illness; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1976 | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

LORD MOUNTARARAT (Jeff Zax) and Lord Tolloller (Clifton Lewis) are a superb pair of Peers. Zax in particular seems to want to create his own style of Gilbert and Sullivan delivery rather than rely on the tried-and-true English accents and mannerisms that are part of the D'Oyly...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: G & S Without Peers | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

Helprin also has problems with dialogue, and manages in most of his stories to keep it to a minimum. Fourteen out of the twenty stories are very short--four or five pages in length--and some suffer from a long, descriptive introduction; expectations are created which are left unsatisfied by...

Author: By Holly Gorman, | Title: Slow Beauty and No Talk | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

ROGER O'BRIEN is miscast as Dick, the would-be stud who steals Kathy away from Bob. He should be a visual foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: Student Struggles | 11/13/1975 | See Source »

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