Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy is foul, but money-big money-is being coined by the entrepreneurs. They are the creators and developers, the dreamers and hustlers who risk and dare. Many flop, but many others make it spectacularly Down in New Orleans, the skyline bordering on the storied French Quarter is being reshaped by a trim and handsome outsider, Joseph Canizaro The company that carries his name has just opened a 32-floor office tower, the first of many buildings in Ms Canal Place complex astride the roiling Mississippi Early in 1 980, dirt will fly for a 25-story structure and three...
...Baton Rouge and New York. Several years ago he traded some land to the city in exchange for the Canal Place site. He got financing from New York and Iran's Bank Omran. After the Shah fell, Canizaro bought out the Iranians. Now he is negotiating with French financiers to become partners Already the first Canal Place building promises to return a profit of $1 5 million a year. Major tenants are moving in: South Central Bell, Brooks Brothers Coopers & Lybrand. For the next buildings, Canizaro has signed up Britain's Trust Houses Forte...
...rare photograph of the late Howard Hughes taken during his Chinese period," cracks Peter Sellers. Actually, it's Sellers in his newest movie, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. Sellers, ranging between the Himalayas (actually the French Alps) and London's Limehouse district, plays the legendary Sax Rohmer villain as a 168-year-old man who steals jewels to crush them into an elixir of life. No, the chefs attire wasn't necessary to cook up such an outlandish plot. It's for the Chinese feast he's preparing for the Tower of London...
...FRENCH POSTCARDS
...American Graffiti, Screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz collaborated with Director George Lucas to transform high school graduation into a rite of mythic proportions. Lucas has moved on to more celestial myths, but his former partners remain preoccupied with the pangs of growing up. In French Postcards, Huyck and Katz try to create a true sequel to Graffiti: their new film is a rueful comedy about American students whose lives change dramatically during a year abroad. But this time the director is Huyck, not Lucas, and the results are deflating. French Postcards'comic anecdotes do not coalesce into...