Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news that business has been reporting is inflation. So we find Government spokesmen telling the people that the real villains in this inflation story are the businessmen who are raising their prices and the labor unions that are raising wages. When any Government tries to eliminate inflation by controlling wages and prices, what it is really doing is asking all of us to suppress the bad news that it has printed too much money. The reason we have inflation is that since 1967 the Government has caused the money supply to grow three times as fast as the goods...
...brightest find of Spartakiad, both in ability and personality, was Carl Lewis, just turned 18. In only his third competition outside high school meets, the gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in his specialty, the long jump. Lewis was disappointed with third place in the long jump, but Stan Vinson, 27, who won gold medals in the 400-meter dash and 1,600-meter relay, looked ahead: "I think he'll jump 29 ft. before he's 20 the way he's going...
Where McNichol's Buddy role forces her toward cuteness, Lane is allowed to play a real kid. She is Lauren, an American child living in Paris, who falls in love with Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), a French boy just her age. Parents get in the way, but the children find an ally in an elderly French windbag (played foxily by Laurence Olivier) who says that he is a retired diplomat, but who turns out to be an unretired pickpocket...
Child actors started to carry their share of the weight of heightened political and social reality. "I think it is the most hopeful business of movies to find the perfect people rather than the perfect artists," wrote James Agee in a review of National Velvet that was like a prose sonnet to the young Elizabeth Taylor...
...sign of hope: casting a new version of Little Miss Marker, Director Walter Bernstein resolved to find someone fresh and preferably nonprofessional for the role that made Shirley Temple famous. He found Sara Stimson, 6, at an open casting call. She had never acted before. And she could be anyone's daughter, even yours...