Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy beach," says Raymond Jacobs,' U.S. distributor of the footwear...
...Uher company's representatives and other experts immediately challenged Miss Woods' testimony. The Uher 5000 recorder, claimed Frank Larkin, sales manager of the West Coast distributor of the equipment, is "designed to be fail-safe?you have to do two things simultaneously to erase. I just can't conceive that a woman who has the intelligence to be the secretary for the Chief Executive of the U.S. could make such a mistake." Pearl Neier, a Manhattan legal secretary, echoed the view of many other experienced secretaries: "I can't conceive of how she could have erased that tape without doing...
...external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside the blond and prosperous farmers. The worst of their savageries, the disembowelment of a pregnant settler, was cut from the film by an offended American distributor...
...full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script and followed it exactly, though the movie has the flow and spontaneous immediacy of improvisation. Altogether, not a film to rouse a distributor's curiosity, but its impact can not easily be missed or forgotten by any one. A bold, unsparing and valuable work. · Jay Cocks
...satiric thriller about presidential conniving and conspiracy in Washington? Two years ago, when Hail! to the Chief was made, no distributor would touch it; the movie seemed to fall somewhere between poor taste and treason. Now, post-Watergate, it has had no trouble finding a distributor; it seems to fall somewhere between poor taste and topicality. Moral: for some moviemakers, it is safer to be accused of quickie exploitation than of insight or prophecy...