Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Hindenburg. As Frank Rich said, if someone spent $15 million to produce this film someone else made off with a haul. The characterizations are so brief as to be virtually non-existent, and George C. Scott hardly has any Scottish lines, much less scenes. The last twenty minutes of...
ONLY STANLEY KUBRICK could have done it--made a film more beautiful, more boring and more expensive than The Great Gatsby. Barry Lyndon is a bad film, a disaster of epic proportions, though its stately pace and self-effacing irony gloss over the worst. There are parts of it that...
In each of the past five years, federal and industry officials have frightened the nation with dire predictions of severe winter shortages of natural gas, and each time the actual shortfall has turned out to be manageable. The 1975 forecasts, however, sounded alarmingly convincing. Last July, President Ford himself warned...
The backdown on forecasts of disaster may embarrass the Administration, which has been using the threat of drastic shortages as the main argument for a bill to decontrol prices of newly drilled natural gas rapidly and permanently. Last week the FPC granted rate increases that by July will raise the...
Whatever the reason for the strong Christmas sales performance, it can only please economists, who have been counting on consumer buying to keep the recovery rolling, and who were mildly worried by a flattening out of retail sales last fall after a strong spurt in spring and early summer. It...