Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually either bastards or saints. Kramer also breaks with nearly all the other unmarried-women and -men movies by refusing to use infidelity as a catalyst in its plot. Ted and Joanna Kramer are one film couple whose conflicts run so deep that they do not begin and cannot end in the bedroom...
...walking out, the film is, for a while, completely on her side. Joanna is sensitive, beautiful and demonstrably deprived of her own identity. Ted is a cagey, unfeeling Madison Avenue adman who cares only about the big account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise, Ted talks only about himself. Finally he tries to yank the fragile Joanna back into their apartment, as if sheer force were enough...
...when each one needs a lube job or a tire change, when to trade it in for the best price. Companies tripped all over themselves to buy his service; it eliminated one more management migraine. He admits: "There is nothing we do that any one of our clients cannot do. But they cannot do it as inexpensively as we because we aim all of our services at a large market...
Grossman hires young, hungry executives and believes in giving them the opportunity to fail. Only if they are willing to take chances, he feels, will they produce ideas. "I cannot ever remember telling a manager, 'Now, you can't do this.' Instead, I might say, 'If I were doing it, I wouldn't do it your way. But I do not believe that there is just one right way to do something.' " There are times-not many-when a Gelco manager takes a risk and flops...
...year's most perverse children's book is Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand in the public eye. His adventures cover oversized pages full of puns ("Hullo, my dreary," "my direling") and bile green anatomy charts that provide a perfect send-up for the child who has ODed on gnomes and faeries...