Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically unravels her bathing suit in an attempt to interest him. He remains impassive throughout...
...reclamation officials have praised Kentucky Oak's efforts to plant apple and peach trees on stripped land and its experiments with terracing, successful reclamation is extremely difficult on the steep slopes. Indeed, residents have few kind words for the company. "They've destroyed the mountains," says Paul Ashley, a leading local opponent of surface mining. "They've destroyed the timber. They've destroyed the streams, and their coal trucks have destroyed our roads...
...without fear of losing their business. No longer forced to compete for patients, local doctors share their skills for the entire community's benefit, but retain their individuality. "We are more a group of solo practitioners with pooled resources and supporting personnel than anything else," says Dr. Charles Ashley, the hospital director...
...expenditures of another $2.4 billion. House Republicans did, however, succeed in eliminating-at least for the time being -provisions that would have given Washington wide powers in the establishment of new communities. Their success illuminated the absentee problem in the postelection session. "We had the votes," said Representative Thomas Ashley, Ohio Democrat. "We simply didn't have them on the floor...
...flop percentage is the same for little movies as for blockbusters-about 70%. The Hollywood rule of thumb is that a picture must gross 2½ times its cost to break even. As Warner's President Ted Ashley puts it, "If you get hurt with the $15 million films, you get de-balled." Though his $20 million Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures...