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Klute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for this film She didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan...
...island were barren, if it had no majestic koa trees or coconut palms or fern forests, no hibiscus, begonia, bougainvillaea, poinsettia, u'ulei, mamane or hinahina blossoms, it would be worth visiting for Haleakala alone. It is among the world's largest dormant volcanoes-it has not erupted since 1790-and its brooding presence dominates Maui. The crater of 10,000-ft.-high Haleakala (pronounced Hah-lee-ah-kah-lah) is seven miles long, two miles across and half a mile deep. While it has almost no vegetation save for patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted...
Brickman concedes that the commission's ability to perform its function is greatly impaired by the administration's stubbornness and sees a battle ahead over authorization of the investigative spots: "You just have to take one look at our offices, they are barren. We have a place to live but no place to sit down...
...litany of city complaints against the University include the eviction of tenants in buildings on Mellon, Ware and Sumner Streets and a low-interest loan program for faculty members that city officials fear will dry up the already near-barren Cambridge housing market...
...Midwestern businessmen were exhilarated by the storm. Wisconsin's eight snowblower manufacturers worked overtime trying to keep pace with demand. Curtis Barren, a Chicago AMC dealer, sold 37 four-wheel-drive Jeeps in five days (vs. a typical three or four). And with so many offices and factories idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press...