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The protagonist, Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is Bob Fosse--no point in rehashing the one-to-one correspondences. He is a talented director/choreographer staging a Broadway musical starring his former wife, editing a movie about a stand-up comic, and indulging his active libido in assorted hopeful chorines. He drives...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Gideon's Babble | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

CINDY NELSON. She is 23 now, and it has been nearly a decade since she burst on the skiing scene. At 15, a native of Lutsen, Minn., she was the top U.S. woman downhiller, tuning up for the Sapporo Olympics with startling performances on the World Cup circuit. Then, less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

In the fight in favor of the hydrogen bomb (a single specimen of which completely flattened the island of Eniwetok in the Pacific and renendered it an uninhabitable, flat desert), Cold-War-oriented advocates of the hydrogen bomb sought to erase the distinction between large conventional weapons and small nuclear...

Author: By David Riesman, | Title: Nuclear Countdown | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

He gets away with it because his only distinctive talent is that he tells jokes extremely well. (Though he's a dreadful actor, embarassing when he's not laughing at something or other.) This is where he's been so lucky with Diane Keaton, who's a decent enough actress...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

What makes Vietnam unique in the history of American military endeavors is the over-whelming lack of moral commitment the war entailed. The soldiers didn't want to fight there. Our soldiers harbored no personal resentment against "Charlie," a contrived enemy, but they were compelled to fight him by the...

Author: By Michael Korn, | Title: Vietnam on my Mind | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

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