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The leftist party is called PASOK--Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Created by Andreas Papandreou, it promotes a Western brand of socialism and takes a vehemently anti-American, anti-NATO, anti-royalist stance; in effect, it perpetuates the underground resistance organization PAK (Panhellenic Liberation Movement). Andreas--as he is universally known--advocates...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: For Stability's Sake | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

In all the shellbursts of nostalgia for the 1950s, there ought to be at least one small report for William Castle, a producer and director of low-budget horror films. Castle fashioned a personality for himself-a sort of little-theater Hitchcock-and assaulted audiences with gimmicks that never really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Unquiet Grave | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Castle abandoned these low jinks in the 1960s and even tried going straight, as the producer of Rosemary's Baby. Shanks, however, is a return to true form. It is awful. There are no technical stunts in the movie, but there is one rather flabby device: the hero, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Unquiet Grave | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

It took Shaffer 2½ years to write Equus, the dazzling psychological thriller-about a boy who blinds six horses-that is now Broadway's rarest ticket. He had heard in 1972 about the incident on which the play is based. A stableboy had been brought before the magistrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Showman Shaffer | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Phase IV is good, eerie entertainment, with interludes of such haunted visual intensity that it becomes, at its best, a nightmare incarnate. It can also sometimes go quite wobbly, with ripely absurd dialogue and the most primitive sort of human characterizations. The movie is about ants, and it is clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE IV: The Ants Are Coming | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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