Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While publicly professing their usual optimism, Detroit automakers for the past few weeks have been holding their breath. Their $6 billion investment in retooling for new models that have been sharply reduced in size and weight (TIME, Aug. 1) represented a gamble: Would the public like the smaller "big" cars? Last week the carmakers could relax a bit and repeat previous predictions of near record sales during the 1978 model-year with more conviction. New-car sales for the first 20 days of October?during which time most of the new models were in the showrooms?jumped 16% above...
...seems somehow anachronous to speak in one breath of these four contemporary women's films and in the next about "In the Land of the War Canoes," but it is actually quite in line with Center Screen's arrempt to offer films to more varied audiences. "Canoes" made by Edward S. Curtis in 1914, is the first course in Center Screen's independent feature film spread. It was lost for years and has never been shown in Boston before...
...most of all, Sayles pins down in dialogue and detail the special bond that exists between men who work too hard. When one miner comes home coughing and can't get his breath from the black lung, let alone sleep, his father-in-law tells, him, "Just a little miner's asthma. Had it all my life," advises him to sleep with an axe-handle under his arms, and rocks contentedly beneath the pictures that line his mantle--Jesus Christ, the Kennedy brothers, and John L. Lewis...
Capp insists that he is quitting because of ill health. Says he: "I've had a great shortness of breath for the past five or six years. I really couldn't go on with it. I just can't breathe." He admits parting with his characters is a wrench: "I keep thinking of all kinds of things to do with Li'l Abner even now. But he's had the most fantastic run for 43 years, and I think this is a decent...
After the press conference, Van Vleck returned home to catch his breath and plow through the growing mountain of telegrams...