Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases and lost it, in New Orleans about ten years ago. The cigarette companies paid the other side over a million dollars...Then I had a fucking judge, I think that he couldn't wait until five o'clock so he could water his tobacco plant in his window box...
...these negotiations, and in others through next year (see box), a labor version of the domino theory will be in effect. If the oil workers agree to a moderate contract, the Teamsters may follow, and then other unions. But, says one Administration official, "if OCAW busts the guidelines, then we will lose the [Teamsters'] master freight agreement, and if we lose that we can forget about the whole guidelines program." At this stage, no one can tell which way the dominoes will fall...
...jolts did not have to bring belly laughs. As always, people liked to be scared. Probably the biggest hit of the fall was Midnight Express, the hyped-up story of an American college boy's escape from a Turkish jail. Without any visible means of box-office support, i.e., genuine stars, or even a few recognizable players, Express has already made $52 million. At the same time, the era of the disaster movie appears to be over. It cost $14 million to shoot The Swarm-the price of honey being what it is these days-but audiences decided that...
...believe in going against everything, and I think audiences will want to be challenged, provoked and moved." Maybe so. But producers who agree might bear in mind that the hit of 1977, Star Wars, was revived in 1978 and for two months made everybody else look sick at the box office. (Long since the movie earner of all time, it has now grossed $267 million worldwide.) Why? Apparently because a younger and younger film audience is delighted to see a show it loves not once but four and five times...
...could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York?based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. "The Hitcher," one of its films for Home Box Office (which is owned by this magazine's parent company), was described by reviewers as having a "massacre about every 15 minutes" and "gizzard-slitting depravity." A Bush-campaign spokesman said the governor did not participate in Silver Screen's decision to back the film and wasn't aware...