Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assembled for a kaffeeklatsch on Barbara Walters' syndicated television show Not for Women Only were three bestselling authors and their analyst. Jacqueline Susann (Once Is Not Enough), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions), Alex Comfort (The Joy of Sex) and New York Times Book Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt participated in what turned out to be a brisk round of alternate back-patting and oneupmanship. Susann gushed to Vonnegut, who replaced her at the top of the lists: "I'm your No. 1 fan. People expect us to be enemies. We're not." Lehmann-Haupt reminded the authors...
...Cool Comfort. Plastics will be under particular pressure. Foster Grant, a manufacturer of sunglasses and plastic resins for industry, is already faced with shortages of petrochemicals. As Martin Fox of Revlon Inc. notes: "There is a world shortage of plastic resins. The feeling in the plastics trade is that things are getting worse." Ironically, customers may have to search for a substitute for plastic, which is itself a substitute material. One example is the auto industry, which since 1960 has increased the amount of plastics in the average car from 20 Ibs. to 138 Ibs. Auto manufacturers have lately drawn...
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Though there is much to admire in Scorsese's film, one's feelings about it are finally ambivalent. Scorsese feels the chill of his mean streets in his bones, and he makes us feel it too. There is neither warmth nor comfort in the places his people seek to escape that cold. The very light of the film suggests a terrarium existence. The detailing is not just a matter of touches; it is an impasto that, instead of being a stylistic device, be comes the root substance of the work...
...Siegel is more concerned with the cunning and ironic measures that Varrick takes to ensure his comfort in his declining years. The movie concludes on the same image with which it opened, and with an especially crafty little twist. It should not diminish the viewer's surprise too much to say that Siegel takes a tangible joy in watching the last of the independents outfox the various organizations that have been causing him grief. Charley Varrick is a sort of backhanded testament to the wisdom that comes with experience...