Word: bond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GREENE SHOULD BE politely applauded for elevating the spy genre above the level of James Bond schlock. But John LeCarre has also done that, and you don't hear people whispering his name as a serious candidate for the Nobel Prize. To introduce "the human factor" into adventure stories is admirable, and Greene has always done it with finesse; the problem is that he never gives that humanity the extra dimension it achieves in the work of truly major writers. Greene leaves us with kiss-and-tell philosophy, and a coolness toward life that throughout his books is never satisfactorily...
Conditions got so bad in the overcrowded county jail in El Paso, Texas, that U.S. District Court Judge William Sessions decided a year ago to order improvements. Little happened. A $17 million bond issue for a new jail was proposed; the voters turned it down. Then there was an attempt to rebuild part of the old jail, but that petered out amid charges that Sheriff Mike Sullivan was using construction workers to make improvements on his own home. This month, finding the jail still overcrowded. Judge Sessions declared Sheriff Sullivan and five other county officials in contempt. Instead of jailing...
...came to me," says Robin, "asked me to make it up. I told him, 'Go 'way, Dad, or I'll put a pair of cement shoes on you.' Then he tried to make me a ward of the court." It was the brotherly bond that finally forced a reconciliation. "If we hadn't been related," Robin speculates, "we would probably never have gotten back together...
...fill other jobs on the show, Shanks has been talking to such nonelectronic types as Georgia State Senator Julian Bond about covering politics, Astronomer Carl Sagan about handling science segments and former Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas Hoving about reporting on culture. Shanks has signed French Documentary Maker Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity) to film reports from Europe and former Esquire Editor Harold Hayes to oversee the editorial content. In a confidential memo to his bosses, Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised...
...Fury should have been DePalma's goony epic. The ingredients include a pair of telekinetic teenagers (double Carrie's load), nefarious international spy organizations, a dastardly Bond-style villain, a goofily bloated score by John Williams, a delightfully eccentric group of players, and a mammoth budget--courtesy of schlock-producer Frank Yablans. The movie fails not because it's so gory, and not even because DePalma cruelly lingers over the deaths of our favorite characters (although this is annoying), but because the storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy...