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...usual movie, it is at this point that everyone decides to cut away from character and call in the stunt coordinator to wow the audience with a big finish, a slam-bang deployment of men and matériel, all hardware and hard knocks, with nary a thought for such behavioral patterns as the film's earlier sequences may have established for the participants. Not so in Man on the Roof, the Swedish-made policier based on one of the Martin Beck novels by Mãj Sjöwall and Per Wahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Whydunit | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...rewrite competently. But I could never do things to please critics or an intellectual coterie. I write to please ordinary people-I write the kinds of books I want to read. Sometimes I go back and read one of my own books, and you know, I really like them. Wow, I say, that's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Crimson: Wow. What happened on B.U.'s winning goal...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: You Don't Say | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...against Fujita, who easily beat the machine. In Washington, B.C., however, the Japanese barber took a beating at the hands of Mark Weinberg, 30, a Government lawyer. "I took him apart," boasts Weinberg, adding: "I'm a lifelong chess player. When I saw this game, I said, 'Wow, this is great!' It is sort of addictive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Japanese Othello | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...last question. What are they going to do for the next two years? Oh wow...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Tears for Some Clowns | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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