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Frontal Attack. Superficially, BSN's attempt looked absurd. Saint-Gobain produces 22% of the world's plate glass, has extensive interests in chemicals, nuclear energy, cardboard and paper. The company has annual sales of glass and other products totaling $1 billion, almost five times BSN's. But Saint-Gobain's current reputation glitters less than its history. Under the presidency of Count Arnaud de Vogüé, 64, the company lagged behind BSN in adopting the float-glass process that revolutionized glassmaking a decade ago. On the other hand, BSN, which was formed when two firms...
...sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
...downgrade the set, as I'd like to, is doubtless to cross a few hundred thousand slave laborers. But Agassiz has a genuinely attractive proscenium, and one should no sooner replace it with yellow cardboard than paste floral wallpaper over the Sistine Chapel. Good notions run rampant through Pat Pilz's scenery, always to materialize several sizes too large, several colors too bright, and several pounds too collapsible. They have built the Great Wall of China where a picket fence was called...
...form San Francisco Container Corp, They put up $20,000, then raised another $180,000 from the Bank of America and the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Next month, in San Francisco's Hunters Point ghetto, they will open a plant that will make chipboard and cardboard cases...
...novel, has been reduced to a drunken bum (someone was afraid to dirty their camera in politics). And Singer's mute friend is grossly overplayed. I don't object to the elimination of these characters--that is the film's perogative--but I must take issue with such cardboard remains...