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...fated relationship born at this moment. Hero Marcus (Michael Brandon) is a footloose heir with a wallet and a head full of dough. Heroine Jennifer (Tippy Walker) is a flighty little psychopath with a couple of nasty habits-bitchiness and dope. After leading Marcus a merry chase from Venice to New York City and back again, she gives him the slip. He returns to the U.S. and settles down in an apartment in New Jersey, of all places, to try to forget. Jenny, by now badly strung out on heroin, finds him and does her balancing act once more -this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smack on the Balcony | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Leading 17-3 in the second quarter, Harvard sat back until the fourth period and watched the Bruins's excellent halfback. Gary Bonner, and their supposedly mediocre quarterback, Bob Zink, put two touchdowns on the scoreboard. The Crimson only awoke when Tyler Chase gave Brown the lead. 19-17, late in the third period with his second long, wind-carried field goal of the day. Tyler's kick so thoroughly excited his teammates at the thought of finally winning a game that they poured off the bench and on to the field to mob the soccer-style place kicker...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Crimson Eleven Escapes Brown, 24-19 | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...biting commentary he ever wishes to make. Most men are basically good, says Kramer's films; their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn to respect each other. Think of Pauline Kael on Ship of Fools: "Original Sin Meets Mr. Fixit." As for recalcitrant Nazis or racists: Kramer only suggests slaughter...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Guess Who's Coming to Brandeis? | 11/12/1971 | See Source »

...scientific nonentity when she began her work. Born in London in modest circumstances, she worked as a secretary when she arrived in Nairobi. Struck by her feeling for animals, Africa's worldrenowned paleontologist, Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, wangled a grant and packed the young lady off to chase chimps. At first she could not get within 500 yards of her subjects. Real discoveries started, however, when a bold chimp she called David Graybeard strolled into her camp one day and began chewing on a palm nut. Lured by bananas, his friends followed. Jane in turn followed the band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Hairy Mirror | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...loss mathematically eliminated Harvard from the Ivy title chase. The Crimson is now 3-4 on the season and 2-3 in league play...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Princeton Dumps Inept Eleven | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

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