Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dillon. "That's been traditional here for generations." Rockefeller, who has hired outside experts at generous salaries (up to $55,000, which is $5,000 more than his own salary) to run some of his departments, replies that he believes in the "non-politicalness of getting things done...
DURING THE PAST MONTH, Jimmy Carter has been the target of harsh criticism from both the left and the right. The critics generally complain that the president has done either too little or too much; that Carter has reneged on campaign promises or that he has unrealistically tried to keep too many; that he has not restored that elusive chimera called "business confidence" or that he has a misplaced faith in the private sector; that Carter quickly became a Washington "insider" practicing the "old politics," or that he is still politically naive and on dangerously bad terms with Congress because...
...until you realize that it's over--but he's somehow lucky to pull it off while maintaining a modicum of dignity. The role, a pioneer auto industry tycoon, requires him to age from 45 to 85, but aside from hair color, there isn't much that can be done to erase the lines. Worse, he has an inadequate conception of an American accent; it spoiled his performance in Come Back, Little Sheba on television last month. Here he sounds Irish, Texan, forced and--although this may be the result of the worst job of post-synchronization since 1929--unintelligible...
...legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...
...Maltese Falcon. Don't call it a thesis, but it seems that some of the most talented directors of American films have done their finest work the first time out. I'm thinking especially of Orson Welles and "Citizen Kane" and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart...