Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is dazzlingly clear from the first four programs, the only ones yet available for viewing. Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, begins the series. Then, dribbled out one a month, come Bang the Drum Slowly, with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard; No Time for Sergeants, with Andy Griffith; and The Days of Wine and Roses, with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. After them come The Comedian, with Mickey Rooney, and A Doll's House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers...
From this nonsense emerges an eerie, seductive thriller that works equally as a mordant police procedural, an occult horror story and an ambivalent look at aborigines fighting for tradition in the technological age. Dialogue is cynical and the cast beguilingly quirky, notably Albert Finney as a detective and Gregory Hines as a manic, mock-suave coroner. Visual effects evoke for the audience the heightened senses of a preternatural predator...
...President's tax cut plans, plus his projected defense spending buildup, will more than offset the Administration's deep spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, and thus increase the need for federal borrowing. Interest-rate pessimists like investment bank Economists Henry Kaufman of Salomon Bros, and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston Corp., who have been nicknamed Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom along Wall Street, assert that the prime rate could ratchet up at least above its peak of 21.5% and possibly as high as 25% before the end of the year...
Then there was Albert Fall from Kentucky. When he was named Secretary of the Interior, Fall was more than $140,000 in debt and eight years behind in paying his taxes. He worked hard and successfully to get federal oil-reserve lands transferred to his own department, then had no trouble finding private drillers who were ready to deal. One of the tracts Fall exchanged for private favors was a spot in Wyoming called Teapot Dome. Meanwhile, Charlie Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau, was traveling about the country, letting contracts for federal hospitals. He was generous with...
...Orient Handel, a store in San Francisco, accumulated a stock of Persian rugs worth $1.2 million to meet strong customer demand. But many of the rugs remain unsold. Says Manager Albert Neherayoff: "Three years ago we used to sell a minimum of $40,000 in rugs each month. That's gone down to $20,000 or $15,000 -or even less. I'm praying that business picks...