Word: burtness
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...movie of the times-both now and then. It is a wisecracking, softhearted romantic adventure in which the major characters seem modeled on movie stars. With the shade of Jean Harlow peering over her cocked shoulder, Liza Minnelli plays a '20s rumrunner called Claire Dobie. Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds, her partners in crime, are like Tracy and Gable, fast friends and occasional antagonists, both in love with Claire. These three amorous buddies run booze up the California coast from Mexico, playing cat-and-mouse with the Coast Guard and doing battle with the Mob boys who frown...
...three principals seem to realize their importance in maintaining the proper chemical balance. Liza Minnelli is better than she has ever been, sweet and raffish, while Burt Reynolds cuts up with infectious bemusement. Much of the heavy acting falls to Gene Hackman-just as it did to Spencer Tracy-and he performs with subdued authority. If the stars seem sometimes to be off on different courses, playing out their own roles instead of playing to each other, this is one of the hazards of all-star Hollywood entertainment...
When the lurch came aboard the American flight, Burt Herman, 44, a Chicago insurance executive traveling with his wife and three children, recalled: "We all had our seat belts on except Laurence. I grabbed him and held him down. There were screams and moans and stewardesses flying around. I exchanged looks with my wife-it was a knowing look in the eyes that this might be it. It seemed like an eternity...
...regular production. Sales slumped, and by the end of calendar 1974 the company was running at a loss. Noorda persuaded Goshorn to resume active direction of G.A. at year's end, when Goshorn's wife finally left him. This time Goshorn brought back his old partner, Burt Yale, as an active director to run subsidiaries. Up to that point, Yale had shown no interest in religion and Goshorn had rarely talked about his faith within the company. But Goshorn soon introduced Yale to Melodyland Christian Center, a school and meeting place near company headquarters. Suddenly Yale shed...
...turn tried to kick out Goshorn and Yale. The zealous duo sped to a local court for an injunction against the board's action. At the next board session, Yale in a prayer asked his opponents to resign. Says Goshorn with a cherubic smile: "They probably thought Burt had flipped out." In fact, Noorda, four outside directors and six of the company's top ten salesmen-some of them Jews upset by the stress on fundamentalist Christianity -quickly departed, shattering morale at the plant. Since then Goshorn and Yale have been in full control, but their piety...