Word: glitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outdone, Producer Jon Peters has now brought forth Eyes of Laura Mars. Like Marathon Man, this film is long on trendy settings, high-priced actors and vicious murders, but devoid of narrative thrills. Peters is betting-incorrectly-that audiences will be too distracted by the movie's surface glitter to notice the vacuum underneath...
...ship is named the S.S. Arco Anchorage, and it leaves at dawn for Long Beach, Calif., carrying 120,000 tons of oil. Outside the harbor's "narrows," a glitter of orange lights signals the impatience of the 800-ft.-long, 71,500-ton Exxon New Orleans, waiting its turn at the spigot. Though they are less than half as big as the Ultra-Large Carriers (ULCCS), both ships are leviathans of 20th century technology: supersized carriers of an increasingly scarce resource. They are also dinosaurs. When the oil is gone, or is replaced as an energy source, these tankers...
...American movies and TV is evident. The Japanese, who love cowboys, are intrigued by anything Western. Says an employee of Knott's Berry Farm near Los Angeles: "They buy cowboy hats, Indian dolls and jewelry and pioneer bonnets for the women." The Japanese are also fascinated by the glitter and tinsel of Las Vegas. The Germans are mesmerized by the wide open spaces in the American West and the grandeur of the redwood forests; they often rent campers to tour the national parks...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Bianca Jagger, 33, Nicaragun-born member of the glitter set; from Mick Jagger, 33, lead singer of the Rolling Stones; after seven years of marriage, one child; in London...
Beside the fun and excitement. Joffe also came to know the underside of fame and glitter--the hypoerisy, the phoniness, the parasitism that comes with sudden adulation and acclaim...