Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical's tall, gangling antihero, Chuck Baxter (Jerry Orbach), is an underling at Consolidated Life and looks suspiciously like a poor insurance risk. His arms seem to dangle somewhere close to his knees, and his face bears the gasp-jawed incredulity of a deep-sea diver whose air supply has just been cut off. What makes him mildly appealing is that he confides his utter lack of confidence in self-abasing little asides to the audience. It is hard to think ill of a man who thinks so ill of himself...
They may not be real, but they are certainly presences-insistent as memory, disturbing as a sudden hush in a crowded room. Ghostly white, implacably still, they command a whole ambiance around themselves. Step too close to the motel bed with its sprawled, exhausted girl, and you feel as awkward as an intruder. Even the simplest figure-a naked girl slumped on a chair by a window, a woman emerging from a shower stall-seems not just a piece of sculpture but a centerpiece of some invisible living space. The mind's eye creates walls, curtains, furniture that...
...author of countless economic monographs and books, 4) an adviser to government officials. Still, when Richard Nixon last week named him to the position of the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (salary: $30,000), McCracken accepted the post eagerly. As he said to a close friend...
...year. Cole has since been promoted to the presidency of the world's biggest manufacturer, partly because of his record of seeing the future clearly, but his fellow automakers have yet to prove him right in his most optimistic prediction. This year, however, they will come tantalizingly close...
...diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion a year eating out, and the figure will double by 1975. There are close to 500 Burger King outlets now, and the number is growing by two a week...