Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen first began to grapple with these issues on film in Interiors, and he plans to make more serious films in the future. "I have always felt tragedy was the highest form, even as a child, before I could articulate it. There was something about the moodiness, the austerity, the apparent profundity of Elia Kazan's films then that sucked me in. With comedy you can buy yourself out of the problems of life and diffuse them. In tragedy, you must confront them and it is painful, but I'm a real sucker for it." Allen did not have...
...because inflation is combining with a diminishing apartment market to bloat rents. Washington, D.C.; Montgomery County, Md.; Boston, Brookline and Cambridge, Mass, and a number of small towns in New Jersey have enacted rent controls since the early 1970s. In the past twelve months, bills calling for some form of controls have been introduced in the state legislatures of New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Hawaii and Pennsylvania. A tenants' association in Miami Beach, where some rents have doubled in five years, is trying to bring back the controls that the city council voted out two years...
...million to Revlon's Michel C. Bergerac, for example, and $2.5 million to Warner Communications' Steven J. Ross. Alan Ladd Jr., the dollar scion of a departed Hollywood heman, collected $1.9 million last year as president of the 20th Century-Fox movie division, mostly in the form of a bonus for having had the shrewd sense (or good luck) to make Star Wars. Ford Motor had three men in seven figures: President Philip Caldwell, Executive Vice President J. Edward Lundy and, of course, Chairman Henry the Deuce himself...
Rather than studying the message of the great teachers such as Moses, Christ or Confucius, Chitrabhanu says men cling to the figures of the leader. For instance, he says, missing the essence of Christ's words, men instead built institutions around him and squabbled about the form of outer trappings...
Sevcenko said Moroz's position with the Institute, if he were able to come, has not yet been determined, but would likely take the form of senior research fellow. He described as "inexact" a Boston Globe report that Moroz has been offered a teaching post...