Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There've been all kinds of problems with freeze-ups and cold areas," J. Lawrence Joyce, director of B & G, said yesterday...
Robert S. Mullen, director of purchasing and insurance, said yesterday the cost of No. 6 low-sulfur residual heavy oil--which Harvard uses in its Medical School power plant and Cambridge Steam also uses--has climbed over 30 per cent since last June, from an average posted price of about $13.60 a barrel last July to $17.82 today...
Jack H. Frailey, director of the student financial aid office, said yesterday that 55 per cent of MIT students receive financial aid. "In general terms, it's almost certain that we cannot cover the increase with grant money. We will cope by providing more loan money and increasing the student wage rates," he said...
MOST BAD MOVIES have some redeeming virtues--an ambitious idea, a suspenseful moment, some good acting, a little imaginative direction. Hardcore, however, is only interesting as evidence director Paul Schrader's professional sellout. As he plods through a made-for-TV-story, Schrader shows no inclination to communicate anything but his boredom...
...morality' and the religious ferocity of the old morality within the character of Travis Bickle. In Hardcore, Schrader relies on the obvious: Grand Rapids family life and California street life confront one another on the screen. His device is too simple, and the extreme images have no force. The director's lack of involvement with the film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle-class moral outrage--to make a cheap show with a tantalizing title that offends no one because it goes...