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January 23, 1971

Featured Pick

Notes on Heart and Mind

Sixties Hollywood ushered in a tidal wave of commercial romantic slop, and now bad movies are more popular than good books, Pauline Kael writes. Can independent criticism save the day?

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profiles

AT THE PINES I-MY BEST FRIEND

Mollie Panter-Downes

fiction

How Now?

Byadam Gopnik