Word: baits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midwestern state governments are wooing movie companies the way underdeveloped countries lay bait for multinational corporations. Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky have set up state film boards. They promote the advantages of movie production in their states through campaigns in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, send emissaries to the studio heads, scout locations, ensure the cooperation of local police forces and other state agencies and act as general factotums when the glamorous people come to town...
...Erotic Adventures of Casanova was the feature attraction at three southern California moviehouses on Aug. 22, according to the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,021,000), while Jail Bait was at eight more local theaters. The next day those cinematic classics were still packing them in, but without benefit of the Times. The paper had become the latest and largest U.S. daily to close its pages to display advertising for pornographic films...
Great Risks. Moreover, a top presidential aide claims that Carter's invitation to a summit "put the Russians in a position where they had to fish or cut bait on the question of strained relations." If the Russians were as upset as they claim, the aide reasoned, "it would seem to be time to sit down." Perhaps. But the fact that Carter publicly said he would welcome a meeting also gave Brezhnev a chance to rebuff a U.S. President while the world was watching...
...vote effort where she is strongest. Rivals hope she will wound herself by playing the brash tartar; Congressman Koch and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton try to goad her with cracks about self-discipline and lack of administrative ability. So far she has left the bait dangling...
...more on its mind than special effects. The two main characters, Schlumberger and Maelzel, lock themselves in a struggle as tense and potentially humiliating as a championship chess match. Maelzel tempts the malformed Schlumberger into his machinery by using Louise Rouault, the wife of a mechanic-assistant, as bait. Eventually, Louise disappears but Schlumberger remains. The Turk frees him from the fear of losing a match publicly and gives him the power to expose Maelzel at any time. For his part, Maelzel exploits Schlumberger's gift for his own profit and dreams of a truly automated player. Mountebank that...