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And what a perfect cast. Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. De Niro is the id unleashed, the man whose characters wear emotional scars like merit badges, who can contain nothing. The slow-witted ball-player of Bang the Drum Slowly, Travis of Taxi Driver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Than Ethereal | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

The latest model from the Gates fiction factory, Angel of Light, is an anthology of the author's excesses. The flaccid, irritating soap opera is jerry-built around the hatreds of a wealthy family in Washington, D.C. A senior bureaucrat, Maurice Halleck, head of the "Commission for the Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deafening Roar | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Sports at Harvard can, in general, be a happy part of anyone's life here. A good rule to remember is this: Never assume anyone else's level of interest is the same as your own, and respect him or her for it. Most people fall somewhere between the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fight Fiercely Harvard: | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Postdated | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Epstein and Mark Leib, who translated the play, have gone back over every line and scene of the original text, delicately excising those barbs that are simply too topical to appreciate two centuries later but leaving intact the many strands of Beaumarchais' plot. Figaro moves through its intrigues and mistaken...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Trouble of Being Born | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

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