Word: cumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welcome to L.A. relates the tale of Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), a songwriter cum stud who has been flown into Los Angeles by his millionaire father (Denver Pyle) on the pretense of composing a battery of tunes for a superstar singer's next album. We see Carroll whisked from office to office, from bitter reunion to happy reunion, from boudoir to boudoir. A taciturn character by nature who oozes ennui from every pore, Carroll is everybody's darling, from his rags-to-riches dad who hasn't received a letter from his prodigal son in three years to the older...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...
...sons, he was born into an affluent New York City Jewish family whose accountant father possessed, in the words of Jim's only brother, Eugene, "probably the brightest analytical mind we have ever met." Jim Schlesinger attended the right schools: P.S. 6, Horace Mann, Harvard (summa cum laude. Class of '50), where he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. After earning his B.A. in economics, Schlesinger took off in 1950 on a traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then under four-power occupation, he inadvertently walked past the Imperial Hotel, the Soviet headquarters. A Russian sentry trained...
Until 1979, as in the past, students in Social Studies will have the option of graduating either cum laude or without honors in general studies if they decide not to complete a thesis...
...when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...