Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next month, Berlinguer and other Communist leaders intend to promulgate that message across the country, frequently in dramatic give-and-take dialogues with voters-another new campaign tactic (see box). For years to come, Italian politics will be profoundly shaped by the number of voters who believe them...
Remember Cleopatra-that wildly ballyhooed Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza of 1963? Executives of 20th Century-Fox wish they could forget; the movie cost $41 million to make, but has taken in considerably less than that at the box office. Yet much of the movie industry is acting as if it has in fact forgotten the big-budget flops that brought several major studios to the brink of financial ruin in the 1960s. Once again, studio heads-this time backed by the resources of conglomerates that have bought up most of the studios-are pouring huge sums into feature films...
...after midnight, Rosenthal would be up in a matter of hours. He describes himself as an insomniac, who wakes up around four or five in the morning, regardless of how late he goes to bed. The first thing he does each day is dictate into his "anxiety box," a dictaphone that he hands over to his secretary to transcribe when he reaches his office around 10:15 a.m. There he will stay until around 7:30 p.m. His evenings are often spent out with his wife and friends, he says...
Many of Ford's difficulties can be traced to his White House staff, which is disorganized and at least temporarily dispirited (see box). Complains a Republican who is close to Ford: "Nobody on the White House staff has ever run for anything." Adds a presidential aide: "When you get Dave Kennerly [the 29-year-old White House photographer] and Don Penny [recently hired gagwriter and speech coach] offering advice on political strategy, you've got problems...
Though Giscard remains confident that his political situation is manageable (see box), some of his own political allies are not sure. The left captured 53% of the total vote in local elections last March, including 26% for the Socialists and 23% for the Communists. Recent polls suggest that Socialist-Communist Union of the Left candidates will win a majority of the races in the 1978 parliamentary elections. If they do, Giscard, whose own term as President runs until 1981, may be forced to appoint a Premier from the left. The result, many French politicians believe, could be a paralyzing deadlock...