Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zieff and his staff spent several weeks producing a commercial that will appear next month for Volkswagen. After an assistant toured Europe for two weeks scouting shooting sites, Zieff flew to Paris, loaded cast, cameras, costumes, props and his 36-man crew into five trucks and a bus and went...
Similar views have lately been aired with growing frequency by other U.S. executives, notably former Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, now chairman of Lehman Brothers International, Ltd., the overseas arm of the Manhattan investment banking house. Last month Ball even suggested that multinational companies be allowed to escape...
Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle, a scathing exposé of the filthy conditions existing in the nation's meat-packing plants, led to passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. Still in force, the act requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect every red-meat animal whose...
His favorite writer was Proust and in his final book, The Lost World, he dipped back into his Hollywood childhood in two long poems. Though he tries to escape into the past, the book has residues of bitterness against the present from a collection of violent essays entitled A Sad...
But Luke is no run-of-the-mill Christ figure. He is above all a rebel and his deification is reserved for the finale. He is far more Marlon Brando than Billy Budd. He tries to escape from camp twice and is brutally punished. Beaten into submission, he tells the...