Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean Fox said the proposal would have to come before the full Faculty, which is responsible for all calendar changes...
Though Chairman Dennis Stanfill and several other officers of the diversified 20th Century-Fox rank above her, Lansing becomes the top American woman in the male-chauvinist world of film production. She will earn close to $300,000 a year in salary and could also collect more than $1 million in bonuses if she finds and develops a string of hits...
...Melnick, her rise has been little short of meteoric. By 1975 she was an executive story editor at MGM, and two years later vice president of production for Columbia Pictures. Aside from intelligence and raven-haired beauty, Lansing's prime asset is her youth, at least according to Fox Vice Chairman Alan Hirschfield, her former Columbia boss, who hired her. Says he: "The movie audience is still trending down in age; 60% of it is between the ages of 14 and 24. Sherry can attract the younger creative moviemakers, who can make pictures that attract younger audiences...
...time and geography, Cope, Idaho, is about as far as you can get from Lincolnian Washington or Edwardian Ireland. But The Noble Enemy (Doubleday; 384 pages; $12.50), set in that no-horse town, is also about death, deceit, love and survival. Charles Fox's novel adds a haunting, imaginative denouement to a news story from the Rockies in the 1960s...
...Fox, 39, an English-educated Californian, writes in a fashion reminiscent of Van Tilburg Clark. His passages about the Mountain West and its mores, unforgiving nature, the meanness of small-town men, the sagacity of an oldtime sheriff, the vulnerability of neglected women, are powerful and occasionally lyrical. Describing the half-dead survivors, he writes: "After a while, the thin sound of two men singing poorly came from a shadow thrown by the moon on a canted field of snow, a thin sound rising up into the mountains that jostled imperceptibly around them. They sang to obscure this awful scale...