Word: corman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...
...Tsongas has shown he has the intelligence and moral fortitude to perform equally well in the Senate. Tsongas's creative approach to energy problems, his sophistication in dealing with third world issues, his work on behalf of state and federal urban revitilization policies, and his support of the Kennedy-Corman national health insurance bill (which Brooke opposes) are representative of his highly progressive politics. With the idealism and sincerity of a Boy Scout, Tsongas offers a more honest and accessible style of leadership than that of the aloof Brooke...
Guzzi proposes a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power facilities, supports the Kennedy-Corman National Health program as well as a tax-based income policy, and favors an $18.1 billion...
...bill. The last-minute maneuver looked as if the President were trying simply to save face-and not succeeding. The White House prevailed upon two liberal Congressmen, Joseph Fisher of Virginia and James Gorman of California, to sponsor the measure. O'Neill scarcely concealed his irritation. "If the Corman-Fisher amendment had been brought here five months ago," he said on the House floor, "it would have sailed through the House...
...cost containment legislation simply in the interest of their own profits. Local groups that see Medicaid consuming larger and larger percentages of their budgets are unfortunately also usually opposed to large, federally-funded projects that aim at comprehensive health care coverage. And the AFLCIO, which supported the Kennedy-Corman bill, unfortunately represents people who are employed and who are already covered by good health plans...