Word: cents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicholas Meyer, the author with a penchant for pairing Victorian celebrities who never could have met. In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, he allied the fictional Sherlock Holmes with the actual Sigmund Freud; in his new film Time After Time, he teams the above-mentioned Ripper and H.G. Wells. Meyer has both written and directed this time, with a happy result: the movie deftly balances equal portions of comedy and suspense...
While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...
...suspense. It also makes a worthwhile if not highly original point, stated most clearly by Warner as he flips from one violent image to another on television: "Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'm an amateur." For Meyer, author of the bestselling The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, it is a promising and interesting directorial debut, requiring a deftness that has eluded more experienced moviemakers. We are in his debt for a bold idea skippingly brought...
...conservation technology exists. The National Academy of Science has studied the possibilities of conservation and reports that by the year 2010 we could be using 20 per cent less energy than we do now, while maintaining virtually the same standard of living--through conservation measures alone. And despite popular misconceptions, we have the solar technology as well--now. The Harvard Business School Energy Project estimates that another 20 per cent of our energy could come from the sun by the year 2000 if the government gives it the high priority it deserves. Both conservation and solar power can be more...
...Pope's emphasis on how Christ answers many of the questions of youth may lead Americans to think about the Roman Catholic Church--in which the average attendance at Masses has dropped about 25 per cent over the past decade, Rimkus added...