Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mile out of town you turn on the radio. The bulletin's half over before you realize who it's about: "...star of Fool for Love, nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in The Right Stuff, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child and the Cannes Film Festival for Paris, Texas, a man who's been called by some the next Eugene O'Neill, by others the Hollywood heir apparent to the late actor James Dean, Sam Shepard, today, got his hair...
...initial suit, Pennzoil claimed that it had a binding agreement to buy a part of Getty Oil at the time that Texaco moved in and purchased the whole company. The Texas court agreed and last November slapped Texaco with what is by far the largest damage award an American court has imposed on a corporation...
Brieant decided that Texaco could proceed with its appeal upon posting a bond of only $1 billion. If Texaco were not able to post a bond, Pennzoil could have begun to claim its award while appeal proceedings continued. Texaco claimed that such a requirement would have forced it into bankruptcy before it could complete its appeal...
...Whatever one thinks of the state court judge's ruling, there were other ways within the state for Texaco to proceed," he said. "Texaco should have to first argue the absurdity of the award in a Texas court...
Sometimes, award-winning European films prove unappealing to a North-American audience. It often appears as if the judges at Cannes think that complexity and unusualness demonstrate great meaning and importance. When Father was Away on Business is clearly not a film of this genre. It is that rare film that can combine great meaning with simplicity and richness, without the stench of Hollywood commercialism...