Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governmental circulatory system. Part of the problem is that the proliferation of rules often takes place in the depths of the bureaucracy, not at the top. A program chief hears a complaint and summons a committee, which calls in lawyers. New regulations are drafted, then sent to a boss who approves them. The regulations are printed; sent to the field; and one morning a federal authority is insisting-to take actual cases-that ice cannot be added to drinking water, chickens cannot be processed in rooms with tile floors, fire extinguishers are to be lowered 6 in., and cowboys must...
Bellows' morale was also running low this year after a series of disagreements with his Star boss, Joe L. Allbritton, 52. Texan Allbritton bought the falling Star in 1974 and it ran up losses of $30 million before edging toward the black this year. Allbritton hired Bellows in 1975 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was associate editor, and Bellows revitalized the Star staff, modernized the typography, and concocted such popular features as a daily front-page interview with a newsmaker and "The Ear," a madcap, much-quoted gossip column...
...works. (Just a few years later, Lemmon, having played this role once too often, turned into a grotesque caricature of himself.) Shirley MacLaine is appropriately touching as the tough-tender waif that Lemmon falls for, and Fred MacMurray is menacing in the uncharacteristically villainous role of Lemmon's sleazy boss. The script, by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, is sophisticated and funny; and although it deals with suicide, adultery, and the impersonality of the modern-day corporation, the film is remarkably cheerful...
...prudery rankles a bit, sugary in a few embarrassing moments. Yet Elia Kazan's otherwise slick direction salvages the plot, wisely allowing Brando to showcase his still developing talents and heart-melting looks. Studded with a brilliant supporting cast that featured Lee J. Cobb as a tyrannical union boss and Karl Malden as a crusading priest, "On the Waterfront" remains a prototype of movies The Way They Used to Be: a crisply paced, moralistic film that uplifts and, above all, entertains...
...Thousand Clowns society infringes on the main character's personality. The comedy writer, who is the play's hero, by refusing to go back to work for his cretinous T.V. show boss, seems to decide at first not to give in. But when circumstances change, he realizes he must make certain sacrifices. He goes to work to keep the nephew who lives with him, doing it, one might say, for love. Performances are tonight through Saturday, and also next weekend, in the Leverett Old Library at 8 p.m. with a 11:15 p.m. performance Saturday night...