Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board a train bound from Marrakech to Casablanca, a jaded American fashion model (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with a moody compatriot (Peter Fonda). She thinks he may be carrying a little grass to ease the boredom of the journey; he wants to be left alone to reflect on tribulations yet to come. "Where were you?" asks the model's travel companion (Estelle Parsons) when she returns to their compartment after being rebuffed by Fonda. "Out of my depth," the model replies...
...compatriot of Don Quixote, Picasso, too, possesses a Romantic belief unique among his contemporaries, in his case the notion that the creative spirit is supreme, that the man inside the artist's guise is most important. Regrettably, the MOMA's pedestrian predictability denies this aspect of Picasso's character. For all its wide scope, the show threatens to reinforce Picasso's statement that "museums are just a lot of lies...
Even the criterion on which to select a president was in question. Did Harvard need a man whom the faculties could embrace as a compatriot (many professors had sent letters critical of Pusey's inadequate credentials as a scholar)? Or did Harvard need a man who, though not a scholar, could be an administrator bringing external order and perspective to the ingrown tendencies of Harvard academia? Should Harvard choose a man on his ability to handle specific problems-curriculum reform, financial crises, dwindling faith in scholarship, even merger debates? Or should it choose a man who had little experience with...
...Cocker/Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a road movie like Hope and Crosby, or for that matter, Hopper and Fonda, never dreamed of. Last year Cocker, his compatriot Leon Russell and a few dozen musicians, singers, wives and assorted girl friends set out under the collective name Mad Dogs and Englishmen to make music all around the country. They played some 65 gigs in 57 days while a camera crew recorded the whole scene, onstage and backstage. The result is a 114-minute carnival of high spirits and solid rock 'n' roll that is almost as much...
...Remember those games in the backyard," says a short-haired and bronzed compatriot gone South to college. "Anthony was a hell of a basketball player...