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  • Regardless of whether the name rings a bell, his contributions to E.C. Comics, Mad magazine, TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, Time magazine and movie posters—from "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye"—are instantly recognizable as the work of one man.

    A Really Quick Draw on Pop Culture Bruce Bennett 2011

  • This is an ensemble-mosaic picture, showing scenes from bourgeois Swedish life, in the structural manner of Altman's Short Cuts, but probably closer to European models, with the feel of Thomas Vinterberg's Festen or a diluted Ulrich Seidl; it adopts the alienating end-of-scene "blackout" punctuation from Haneke's Code Unknown.

    Involuntary – review Peter Bradshaw 2010

  • I think that something like Altman's proposal is needed to make mandatory health insurance (which I favor) work.

    Health Insurance Idea, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Instead, the Bluejays didn't even make the NIT and suffered the most losses since Dana Altman's first team in 1994-95.

    Creighton - Team Notes 2010

  • 'Brewster McCloud' 1970 Bud Cort, who has a small role in "Passion Play," plays the title role in Robert Altman's eccentric—and by now almost unknown—fable about a loner who lives deep below the Houston Astrodome and dreams of flying inside it with a pair of strapped-on wings.

    'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Yet it is a spirited movie, its final shoot-out in the snow presaging the magnificent close of Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller.

    Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011

  • This groundbreaking anti-war entry was director Altman's breakthrough, and in our view still stands as his finest, purest work: an uproarious, razor-sharp satire that feels as fresh and irreverent today as when first released.

    John Farr: Actor's Actor: A Birthday Salute to Robert Duvall John Farr 2012

  • M*A*S*H (1970)- Robert Altman's black comedy details the shenanigans of Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland), Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould), and Duke Forrest (Tom Skerritt), three rogue surgeons assigned to a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War.

    John Farr: Actor's Actor: A Birthday Salute to Robert Duvall John Farr 2012

  • Instead, the Bluejays didn't even make the NIT and suffered the most losses since Dana Altman's first team in 1994-95.

    Missouri Valley Conference 2010

  • Bartlett's structure takes time to grasp but employs something of the collage technique of a movie such as Robert Altman's Short Cuts.

    13 – review 2011

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