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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...will doubtless be argued that there have been other films as bloody and violent as The Island, but most of them have been linked, however tenuously, to some observable reality or existing moral ugliness. But these pirates have no relation with common experience. They cannot even be defended, like the great white shark Benchley invented for Jaws, as projections of a deep-rooted unconscious fear. They carry no symbolic weight, and can be seen only as the figments of a desperately groping but entirely inept imagination-a hack's fever dream. It is difficult to see why anyone would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep-Sixed | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Death of the Heart | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Early yesterday morning, at about 4 a.m., a little group of Harvard undergraduates who would doubtless consider themselves "politically concerned" sought amusement in the Yard. They turned around a few of the chairs set up for Commencement and delivered a few off-the-cuff speeches from the stage set up outside Mem Church. This proved satisfactory...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Ten Years Ago This Spring | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

This film works beautifully because Hudlin is able to study all this in a relatively short time, without destroying the movie's unity. We leave the theater having seen a cogent, succinct work--not merely a series of important images and scenes. The simplicity of the production, doubtless due to both Hudlin's restraint and a low budget, adds to its strength...

Author: By Marc J. Jenkins, | Title: Not Only in New Haven | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

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