Word: lined
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...That line is all right, within limits. If memory serves, the comic-strip Popeye spent some time in just that...
Where, in its preparation, the film became mushy misanthropy one cannot tell. It can certainly be said that Popeye will bore children and offend adults who fondly remember the original. It is a travesty to hear Williams warble the classic "I yam what I yam" line in one of Harry Nilsson's many witless songs. "I'm not the man I was" would be a more appropriate lyric. Or maybe, "What have they done...
...racial harmony, reformed alcoholics, a day-care center and athletic amputees vaulting merrily from wheelchair to desk chair. Through the ordeal, Lily and Dolly prove themselves game professionals. Tomlin is a crackerjack comic actress, even when the confection is stale, and Parton has as fetching a way with a line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays her character like a cross between Barbarella and Barbie doll. But that is Higgins' way. He wants both to leer and to lecture. Nine to Five is a vile mess...
...York Times's front page quotes from documents "made available to the Times." By whom? Not stated. That was part of the bargain. Motivated by what? Also not stated. Last week one such leak created a damaging flap around Illinois' Charles Percy, who is first in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After more than nine hours of talks with the highest Soviet leaders in Moscow, Percy predicted that the two nations would soon be discussing arms control again. Brezhnev and Reagan, he said, were sending "signals to each other ... in a sense through...
...indebted to Scimone and his group for their part in rekindling enthusiasm for the Mediterranean treasures of the period. The Rampals, of course, have been outstanding influences in the current popularity of classical flute. The mechanical clarity they bring to Vivaldi's refrains is another in a long line of Rampal victories through air power...