Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today's capitalist economies undoubtedly benefit from powerful corporations. The sheer size of modern economies and the vast number of skills that must be marshaled to design and produce such products as color-TV sets and computers?to say nothing of space rockets?make any yearning for Adam Smith's world of individual entrepreneurs an exercise in pointless nostalgia...
Alvarez's lesser characterizations range from the empty to the offensive. Sam's mother, making a brief appearance for the sake of color, is Jewish; her first four lines...
Tomorrow. Tom Snyder is the host for a six-hour Fourth of July celebration. Even if you've had your fill of Snyder and of Bicentennial tripe, you might stay tuned for a bit of local color: in addition to interviews with Jimmy Breslin, Las Vegas tourists and Wernher von Braun, Snyder will talk with "young people at Harvard...
Yellow Submarine[1968]. It's hard to get very excited about things when the Dodgers are eight games out and Tony C. wallows in Pawtucket, but I suppose this Erich Segal-scripted, 7-up commercial of a Beatles movie is worth seeing. Ch. 7, 8 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
Financed with plastic-coated petrodollars marked IN OIL WE TRUST, the player seeks to control and exploit all the countries belonging to the same color group-Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, or Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. Aside from the roll of the dice, advances or reverses occur when the would-be oil potentate lands on the space marked "Telex," where a message may order him to return to the Geneva Airport-equivalent to Monopoly's "Go" position-notify him of a crippling tanker strike or tell him to skip ahead to be photographed for a TIME cover...