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Saturday, November 27: "All the color and excitement of college football" seems all a dull astroturf green now as you enter the stage of "Spectator Degeneracy." The blank expression on the face, intermittant pulse beats, and visible post-nasal drip characterize your stuporous countenance. Penn State may beat Pittsburgh, and...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Thanksgridding Guide | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

It is when Stephanie marries Paul and settles into an American country wifehood that the teasing promise of her intricate and highly individual childhood declines toward case history, and static, predictable domestic woe. Stephanie's cries rise to heaven like those of De Sade's Justine, a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabin Fever? | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

The fundamental triviality of Gray's feminism is unhappily reflected in her style, which might charitably be called uneven; that is, it goes from bad to worse. Gray is by turns breathy and didactic. The effect of an occasional lovely image is immediately obliterated by platitudes. The light in northern...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Love's Labors Lost | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

With most singals go, Harvard settles into a grudge match against its favorite cross-river rival. Ivy Champs is fine, but it doesn't mean much on Commonwealth Ave.

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: B. U. Terriers Cross the River | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

COUSIN, COUSINE, much honored in France, is one of those overbearingly blithe sexual comedies that stirred the New Wave directors to rebellion. The movie confuses fecklessness with charm, trips so lightly that it never settles down to anything telling. Gallic comedies like Cousin, Cousine are animated by a certain earthbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imported Variety | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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