Word: count
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must also take issue with Mr. Walker's deceptive use of numbers in an otherwise objective presentation. It is often said about military analysis that how you count determines what you will find, and this is seen in the following quotation from Mr. Walker's article: "The current (military) budget is higher than any other period of U.S. history excepting World War II and Vietnam. It is higher now than during the Korean War and in the past fifty years of relative peace...
...sent to the U.S. by the Black Tuna Ring, whose members carry medallions engraved with the fish. The gang is estimated to have smuggled $300 million worth of narcotics into the U.S. since 1974. Last week a federal grand jury in Miami hooked 14 Black Tunas with a 40-count indictment for, among other things, racketeering and smuggling. It was one of the biggest drug busts in history...
...Count Dracula has always been something of a romantic. Given his undead state and his all too literal bloodthirstiness, his problem has ever been to find a socially (not to say legally) acceptable way of expressing his sweeter side. It is the funny premise of this movie that it required the intervention of the U.S. (circa 1970-79) to make the count begin to look good, despite his obvious kinks, to a lady...
Played by George Hamilton (and very nicely too), he is booted out of Transylvania by the humorless Communists who are going to turn Castle Dracula into a sports and recreation center. The count decides to go to New York City in pursuit of Model Cindy Sondheim (Susan Saint James), whom he recognizes from magazine covers as the reincarnation of the one woman he has really loved for some seven centuries. Cindy, alas, is not quite the innocent she was in her past lives. She divides her evenings between the discos and one-night stands, popping uppers and downers...
...intended to prove that nothing is sacred to the film makers, but it just plays uncomfortably. There is also a flatness about Stan Dragoti's direction that prevents the film from realizing all its comic potential. But the performances (including that of Arte Johnson as Renfield, the count's bug-eating assistant) are uniformly jolly, the parody of the basic Dracula formula well observed and its social commentary deliciously off the wall. The production's genially tatty air enhances its anarchical mood and encourages one to go with its goofy yet often shrewd comic flow...