Word: careered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus ended the life of Jesse Walter Bishop, 46, heroin addict and career criminal who committed his first armed robbery at age 15 and passed 22 of his last 27 years behind bars. With similar steadfastness, Bishop had denounced all efforts made on his behalf by civil libertarians to stay his execution for the 1977 murder of Newlywed David Ballard, 22, during a casino stickup in Las Vegas. Indeed, Bishop waived his right to a jury trial and immediately pleaded guilty to the killing...
Another possibility is Chung II Kwon, 61, the much decorated first four-star general (retired); his distinguished career includes terms of service as Foreign Minister, Premier and speaker of the assembly...
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...
Although he labored in obscurity throughout his early career, William Faulkner lived to see an academic cottage industry grow up around his books. Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness. Raw material is naturally at a premium. If a single word that Faulkner wrote and neglected to destroy has not been discovered, some professorial truffle hound will doubtless find and publish...
...worked for him in Budapest, in Vienna, in Berlin-each of which he was forced to leave because of either politics or economic conditions just as he was establishing his film career. It worked for him most spectacularly hi London, where, with films like The Private Life of Henry VIII and The Four Feathers, he singlehanded, and almost overnight, turned the moribund British movie industry-and his company, London Films-into an international force in the 1930s. Indeed, about the only place it did not work for him, at least initially, was Hollywood. But that really was not his fault...