Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Duncan Grant, 93. the last survivor and "court painter" of the celebrated Bloomsbury group of London-based intellectuals, which included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes; in Aldermaston, England. Greatly in demand as a decorator. Grant also designed for the stage and was a postimpressionist painter of some renown...
...deals that are pending are suspended; and the ones I've done, the celebrities are screaming. Where does a ruling like this stop? Is Morris the cat going to be leaned on?" Manhattan Adman Lloyd Kolmer predicts heavy haggling over those endorsements that are signed. Stars will demand that manufacturers indemnify them against product-liability suits-the equivalent of malpractice insurance. Unglamorous, maybe, but better than forking over part of that fat fee to misled admirers...
...growing much faster than production; new jobs are opening up at a rate of 4 million a year. Productivity has declined sharply, so perhaps more people are needed to do the work. But Eckstein points to one big reason for the jump in jobs: "Businessmen see a lot of demand out there, and they hired many people because they know that business will be good this year...
...most amateurish major studio release so far this year. Those moviegoers who conclude that FM is 1) or 2) will find the film a fascinating experience. Those who decide that FM is in fact 3) may want to write the film's distributor, Universal Pictures, and demand their ticket money back. But any moviegoer with a taste for adventure will surely want to sample the evidence and make up his own mind. Films like FM just don't come along every day of the week: they are usually locked up in studio vaults or sold directly to cable...
...Warren Court days, confronted by a war party of angry local baseball players after he had accidentally desegregated the box scores. Here he is, older but unbowed, battling with the Times's infamous New York editors, one of whom once interrupted him on a presidential trip to demand a reconciliation between his story and the Associated Press version. Wicker shot back: "My story's right and anyway, I just left the A.P. It's down in the bar, drunk." He inks an indelible portrait of Lyndon Johnson, who liked to hang the Presidential Seal on a bale...