Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be nice to give the Goldfinger people credit for clever parody. However that form depends on a recognizable model and only the two previous Bond movies are effectively ridiculed. This is incestuous and--if that's not the right word given 007-ludicrous. Although the movie starts out as an enjoyably satiric melodrama, it is so lacking in character or conflict that melodrama too soon becomes no drama at all. A parody of a parody is too much...
...several other occasions as well, Johnson's diplomatic report card also was mixed. His decision to go ahead with the Congo air-rescue operation was diluted by its tardiness and by the fact that the mission was halted prematurely. To his credit, he attempted to restore peace to Cyprus, even though the prospects of success were slight. The effort failed, but only after Under Secretary of State George Ball gave the island's Archbishop Makarios a dressing down worthy of Lyndon himself. "For God's sake, Your Beatitude," Ball scolded the archbishop, "this killing must stop...
Great Future. "As long as I've known Lew," says his friend Tony Curtis, "everybody's been frightened of him." Not everyone has reason to be. He liberally delegates authority and even more liberally disperses the credit for MCA achievements. "I don't believe that one man ever runs anything," he says. He insists on the spirit of "we." As one MCA sales executive explains it: "I think Mr. Wasserman would be very upset if anyone used the word 'I'-if someone were to walk into his office and say, 'I just sold...
...Shyre-Hersey play is admirably animated by human decency. It falters because it cannot credit other humans with a like will and decency to resist the pervasive wiles of the inhumane...
...Teetery Credit. A decade after the Revolution, Britain was still denying U.S. ships access to the West Indies and still treating the new nation, economically, as a colony. The policy of Secretary of State Jefferson was to threaten counterembargoes and demand concessions. Hamilton believed that conciliation and appeasement were the only hope. Outtalked in Cabinet meetings, Hamilton set about negotiating with the British on his own. He justified his interference on the ground that the then teetery credit rating of the U.S. economy required rapprochement with the British at virtually any cost...