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...hand. For all Shapiro's revelations on the underlying sexual message of commercial television, he exploits women for laughs just the way advertisers exploit women for sales. It is likely that the audience, laughing at a newsclip of a press conference at which the President fondles Shapiro, in drag, as India's woman prime minister, felt subconsciously self-satisfied at having not been offended by Groove Tube 2's breach of conventional taste. It is not likely they would have laughed or felt so entirely sure of themselves had the Prime Minister returned the President's favor, admitting that women...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Groove Tube 2 | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

...your competition is physically slighter than you, and following cuecards to boot? Patrick Magee is the second lead, the writer, and in his crucial scenes he's an embarrassment--he drums his fingers and stares wildly ceilingwards like a resurrected Dwight Frye. The officials act like they're in drag, and the thugs are morons, without the gutter wit that makes them interesting in Peckinpah...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Stanley's No Sweetheart Any More | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

Because they are humanized, these objects take on a marvelous, even clownish pathos. The blue vinyl mass of Oldenburg's Three-Way Plug - Scale A hangs from the ceiling, drag ging its prongs on the floor like a deflated giant; its sockets gaze mournfully at the room; one feels an urge to speak gently to the thing and soothe its defeat. By contrast, Oldenburg's Heroic Sculpture in the Form of a Bent Type writer Eraser, 1970, which was com missioned - and then rejected - for an office plaza on Manhattan's 57th Street, is a veritable parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Magician, Clown, Child | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Director Katherine Dunham treated Treemonisha as the period piece it is but did little more than use it as a frame for big dance scenes. These had a scalp-tingling power. The gorgeous A Real Slow Drag ended the opera with a ceremonious eroticism that nearly matched Joplin's music. Alpha Floyd, in the title role of a foundling whose book learning propels her into civic leadership, produced a bright, reedy soprano but had stiff presence. Simon Estes, as Treemonisha's father Ned, draped Joplin's curvaceous melodies in rolling voluminous sound. But with surprisingly lackluster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Rags to Rags | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...sprawling. Taylor claims that Witte spit on him, but films show Witte to be groggy and passive. As Witte lay on the floor for the second time, Minnesota's Ron Behagen ran off the bench and began stomping on Witte's head. OSU coach Fred Taylor had to drag Behagen off Witte...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 1/28/1972 | See Source »

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