Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bad friend, but economically poor. In Chinese, the word poor has no bad connotations to it. Of course, that does not mean that China is of no use. We do not look upon ourselves as inconsequential...
...Dukes of Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...plenty of examples seem to indicate that lack of trustworthiness in one area can carry over into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove...
Though Government attorneys consider the suit to be mainly a public relations gesture, it will strike a chord among many businessmen who maintain that the "discrimination" problem lies with the cumulative bad effects over the years of the many changes, contradictions and lack of coordination in federal employment regulations. The suit notes that some of Sears' present difficulties stem from postwar years, when Washington urged companies to hire veterans, who were then predominantly white and male. The later imperative to hire more women and minorities not only conflicted with this earlier priority but also resulted in hiring policies being...
There are flashes of excitement in The Great Train Robbery, but the thrills have little to do with locomotives or crime. This film's heat is generated almost exclusively by Lesley-Anne Down, who played Georgina in Upstairs, Downstairs. After too many blah roles in bad movies (The Betsy, A Little Night Music), Down has a fine role in a mediocre movie. It's all she needs to begin her film career in earnest. Though The Great Train Robbery is on the wrong track, Down...