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September 1974 was a month that very few could enjoy. It was squalid--full of craziness without class. As worthless a month, in fact, as any in recent memory. The evidence...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: A Good Month For Nixon, Calley and Shirley Temple Black | 10/1/1974 | See Source »

...Making an arrest in plainclothes, Serpico is fired on by uniformed officers who don't recognize him as a cop. The scene develops almost humorously, with Serpico crouched in a corner, frantically waving his badge and shouting "police officer," but the point is unmistakably made that his life is worthless to any enemy on the force...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Another Man's Road to Watergate | 7/30/1974 | See Source »

...become, he says, "uncertain of what America had become," avoided. Kremen took off for a few months in search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely noble, but he made one crucial error: He didn't leave behind his tape recorder and notebook...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Benny Kremen's America | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

King of Hearts is in its third year at Central Square and only god knows why. The film is a worthless inanity--it's sometimes fun to watch but it's ideologically weak. If you're going to make the trek down to Central, you're much better off with a great Woody Allen double feature next door. Sleeper is his tightest work to date, precise, hilarious and painstakingly mapped out. Bananas, where Allen apotheosizes the machismo theme, is the funniest thing he's done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...vegetation of a tropical rain forest -perhaps the most luxuriant vegetation in all the world-stands on soil that is almost worthless for growing food crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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