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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some people will continue to fish for fat meaning and lessons about life. A young man rose during the midnight exchange and said to Welles: "I just wanted to tell you that I thought F for Fake was a masterpiece--one of the most exciting things I've experienced--and I'm going home to think and think about it." When some simple editing tricks pass as so many profundities, no wonder Welles thinks of Art as the art of putting one over

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...Lady Shanghai, did he decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches the fat, fraudulent and exposed cop, Harry Quinlan, sink beneath the river garbage in the closing shots of Touch of Evil? ("He was a real man," Dietrich mutters. "What can you say about people...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...commission are substantial without being stupendous (see chart). Because Cabinet posts are much sought after, their salaries would advance only 7%, to $67,500. Judges, on the other hand, would get a better break because most serve until retirement and are unable to make up for financial sacrifices with fat salaries in later years. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court would be boosted from $65,600 to $80,000, Court of Appeals judges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: How to Get--and Keep-the Best | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Bottom Line. Start-up costs of New West, originally estimated by Felker at $1 million, ran over $3 million. Though New West is fat with ads and has a heady 240,000 circulation, expenses are outstripping revenues. Village Voice is still profitable, but its net income has dropped since the takeover. Thus, for the first time in years, N.Y.M. Co. will post an operating loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Playing New York's Power Game | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Video games were hot, and so was a miniature deep-fat fryer called a Fry Baby. After wrappings from these and millions of other gifts had made messes of American living rooms on Christmas morn, U.S. retailers could look back on record sales that topped last year's Christmas totals by 11%, according to a preliminary Department of Commerce report. Allowing for an inflation rate of 5%, that still meant sales were up an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Christmas Sales: Not Bad | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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