Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALMOST THE ENTIRE supporting cast similarly lacks freshness. Rocky III has almost become it self-parody. In interviews, Talia Shire insists that she doesn't just want to be known as Francis Ford Coppola's sister. Better the sister of Apocalypse Now's maker than this most recent incarnation of Rocky's main squeeze. Shire parades through the film with but two emotions, and you can't miss them. When she's proud, she smiles hesitatingly, blanks back tears, and lowers her head. When she's worried, she frowns hesitatingly, blinks back tears, and lowers her head. Her character, however...
...Winding Passage, by Daniel Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences...
...have stumbled on. The Jimmy Carter people now acknowledge that they should in accepted the Vladivostok arms formula devised by Gerald Ford in 1974. Top Soviets have privately confided that they may have made a mistake in rejecting Carter's 1977 offer for deep cuts in nuclear arsenals. Many people in Washington now believe that Congress erred in thwarting the SALT II agreement signed...
Bringing with him a reputation as a no-nonsense executive in previous senior-management positions at Ford and Xerox, McCardell at first did well, pruning corporate deadwood, tightening the budget, scrapping unprofitable products and boosting research and development. But his efforts to cut costs still further got him into a losing fight over work-rule changes with the company's unionized workers, most of whom are members of the United Auto Workers. This led to a costly six-month-long strike in 1979 that sent management-labor relations into a tailspin...
...fault movie. Actually it was, and remains, a television show, based on John Updike's short stories about how Joan and Richard Maple drifted apart. It is being given a second life in the theaters because someone up there at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios liked it and thought the film deserved a second chance. It is hard to see why. The Maples are a couple who seem to have no great quarrel with each other, therefore no reason for their philandering ways. Their divorce, when it comes, is just like their marriage: civilized, ruefully witty...