Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaging bachelor with a string of love affairs behind him (one with Actress Adriana Asti, who played the lead in his first two films), Bertolucci loves to prowl through art galleries, and has stuffed his small flat in a Rome apartment hotel with records and books. "Literature was the past that I had to overcome and contradict with something," Bertolucci has said, "and that something was the cinema. If I had to talk about authors who formed me, I would say Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Chandler and Hammett." Another, even more perceptible influence might be Freud. Bertolucci went into psychoanalysis...
...significantly this year. The outlook for aspiring teachers is still cheerless, but newly minted engineers will be sought almost as avidly as All-America fullbacks. The College Placement Council of Bethlehem, Pa., surveyed 672 corporations and found that job offers would be up 15% this year for recipients of bachelor's degrees, 22% for holders of master's degrees and 20% for Ph.D.s. John Shingleton, director of the Michigan State University placement bureau, predicts that there will be a strong market for most skills this year, particularly in accounting and hotel management. Meanwhile, an annual job forecast compiled...
...College Placement Council (CPC), a nonprofit organization based in Bethlehem. Pa foresees an overall increase of 16 per cent in job openings for all college graduates with Bachelor of Arts degrees. These prospects are the best in four years...
...furious pace. Scientists in Houston still talk about the time they took Schmitt to lunch at a local topless restaurant, where they all engaged in the usual space-flight shoptalk. Later, when one of the group asked what he thought of the amply proportioned girl who had served him, Bachelor Schmitt was astonished. "When was she topless?" he asked. "I didn't even notice...
Rafelson's hero is David Staebler (Jack Nicholson), a late night radio monologuist who broadcasts private traumas packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream...