Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase fired an 82 while Charlie Woodworth and George Arnold brought up the rear for the Crimson...
...companies by Merrill Lynch Economics, Inc., a subsidiary of the nation's largest stockbroker, shows them planning to increase spending an average 16.3%. But, discounting for inflation of 5% to 6%, even the most bullish forecasts would not return "real" business spending to its 1974 peak levels. Says Chase Econometrics Associates President Michael Evans: "You can't get a boom out of that...
...last substantial U.S. playwright in this mode was Philip Barry, whose The Philadelphia Story is brought to mind by The New York Idea. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and^ the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends and chase after their respective ex-spouses. These propositions were as scandalous in 1906 as they are commonplace today. But the play lives because its humor has the pinpoint carbonation of champagne and a tipsily endearing bias toward romance...
Somehow, the old kitsch was missing. Oh, Chevy Chase took a dive-and i a giant envelope from a hairy Kongian hand. Marty Feldman smashed a statuette to smithereens. Richard Pryor yelled, "Hey, everybody in Peoria, it's me." But basically, to the chagrin of camp followers everywhere, they played it straight, even to the point of inviting Norman Mailer and Lillian Hellman to give awards. Missing were Bob Hope, John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that...
...Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play with...