Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courageous act," said Harold Blumberg, executive director of Boston's n. American Jewish Committee. "A bold and desperate gamble," wrote the Miami Herald. Said Ted Bonda, an Ohio Democrat and former owner of the Cleveland Indians: "He's put his and the country's prestige on the line," As Jimmy Carter left for the Middle East, Americans by the hundreds phoned the White House, not to voice approval or disapproval but simply to wish the President good luck. There was at first a general assumption that he had received assurances from Israel and Egypt that his trip...
...departure, he had sunk to his lowest point in the public-opinion polls since July 1978 (63% negative in the Harris survey), partly because voters generally believe that he is floundering in his foreign policy and has lost control of events. Said Joel Fleishman, director of Duke University's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs: "Carter needs a success. The ripest possibility is the Mideast, so why not go after...
...been embittered by his pressure on Israel to make concessions to Egypt. Said Clifton Hillman, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Boston: "You've got to give Carter credit for trying." But Jewish leaders cautioned their followers not to expect too much. Said Myron Brodie, executive director of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation: "A good marriage isn't the result of a marriage certificate...
...what violence there is is curiously abstract and unemotional. More gore can often be seen on the television screen, and any number of films-Marathon Man, Death Wish, just about any Peckinpah film and certainly A Clockwork Orange-have contained far more stomach-churning brutality. Indeed, The Warriors' director, Walter Hill, goes out of his way to expunge any feeling of genuine menace or racial animosity. The gang called the Warriors is integrated; there are no scenes of sexual assault, so typical of this kind of film, and there is no attempt to scorn or bait the white middle...
...mots flowed faster than the Clement Colombet Chablis at the American Film Institute dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring bulbous Meisterzinger of Murder Alfred Hitchcock at 79. "Hitch's genius," quipped Actor John Forsythe, "is that he can put such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection...