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But the Ivy wimps proved not so wimpy after all, and the preppies had no intention of getting nuked. By the end of the game, only a few of the more than 38,000 fans present were smiling.

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: This is Next Year for Cadet Squad; Army Has 15-10 Upset to Remember | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

By the time you started to part your hair in the middle and wear a hooded sweatshirt under your junior high basketball jacket, you had worn through one copy of Hot Rocks and had the 1972 American tour promo poster on your bedroom door. You got the wimpy kid to...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: It's Only Rock and Roll | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

Given the peculiarity of portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: The Intelligent Rodent | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

Altman has gathered together the whole crew of crazy caricatures and shipped them off to the ramshackle town of Sweethaven. In residence, there are the Oyls, most notably Olive, Popeye's confused and confusing "sweet pattootie"; Swee'pea, Popeye's mischievous "adoptik infink"; the villainous, animal-like Bluto; J. Wellington...

Author: By Jared S. Corman, | Title: More Spinach, Less Altman | 1/6/1981 | See Source »

French Director Maurice Pialat sits behind his camera like a bacteriologist at his microscope, waiting patiently for his subjects to squirm to life. He does not argue or judge; he observes and classifies. In 13 years he has made but five films, each dissecting the lives of the French working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love and Death | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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