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Hemingway seems understandably comfortable in the role of Chris. Too comfortable, at times; she simply walks through many of the scenes, saucereyed, plopping her lines into the laps of others. But her acting improves when she's in good company; she's fine in the rape scene, where Chris Sarandon...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Moist Lips and Saucer Eyes | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

Johnson doubtless expected love at least from his biographer, but in this, too, he was to be disappointed. He told Kearns that she reminded him of his mother, and so he unburdened himself of dreams, ambitions and regrets that he had confided, apparently, to no one else. He hoped that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: L.B.J.: Naked to His Enemies | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

These periods of rest may be necessary, yet the feeling usually arises that urgent business is being left unattended, that an idle nation (idle in the sense of ignoring self-improvement and reform) does the devil's work. Indeed, during both the Hoover and Eisenhower presidencies, these pauses were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NEW STARTS FOR AMERICA'S THIRD CENTURY | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

MH II is pop tragicomedy, Lear's real forte, in which one man's yuk can be another's yecch. In one recent episode, he decided to hold a funeral service in Mary's kitchen for a sports coach who had drowned in a bowl of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: King Lear | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Had the spirit animating them moved more than fitfully through the film, if its creators had faced up to the fact that there was no honest way to make a PG movie out of a life and an art that was strictly R-rated, they might have turned out a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: W.C. Pagliaccio | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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