Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School faculty has approved the permanent appointment of C. Clyde Ferguson, visiting professor of Law, who would be the third black member of the Law School faculty, a vice dean of the Law School said yesterday...
...midday, Wheat Farmer Clyde Eveleigh stared out his front window near Ulysses, Kans. His yard light, which turns on automatically when the sky darkens, glowed dimly through clouds of gritty dust. "I'm guessing that we got wiped out today," he reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during...
...start of the film, Dick (George Segal) has lost his job as an aerospace engineer. Reduced to standing on unemployment lines, he realizes that the "bulging pocket makes the easy life." So, he and his wife Jane (Jane Fonda) rehearse a Bonnie and Clyde act, first out of necessity and then as a sexual turn-on. They debut as criminals by robbing a drugstore; then they progress to the telephone company and Dick's old firm. Dick eventually outsmarts his ex-boss Charley (Ed McMahon) to wind up as president of the corporation. If crime is a game, then their...
...Late Show represents by far the most intelligent and engaging attempt at reincarnation so far. Writer-Director Benton (coauthor of the script for Bonnie and Clyde) has imagined a Philip Marlowe type named Ira Wells (Art Carney), who has outlived his day. He is discovered existing in a rented room on Social Security, watching old movies on TV while his attempt at an autobiography languishes in the typewriter, just one paragraph written. Then his old partner (played by Howard Duff, who was Sam Spade on the radio in the old days) arrives gut-shot at his door, dies...
...Clyde Ferguson, visiting professor at the Law School, said yesterday that he "turned down a number of specific positions in the area of foreign policy" offered by the Carter administration so that he could continue his writing and teaching here...