Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crime of Monsieur Lange. Other Renoir films draw the devoted back for different reasons--The Rules of the Game for its seering social satire, Grand Illusion for its flawless humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into...
...completely did they work their way into the confidence of the Mafia-backed labor groups in the harbors that they ended up as bagmen, carrying payoff money back to the mob. Last week there was no mention of the actors when 400 subpoenas were served for two federal grand jury investigations of an extortion ring that has preyed on at least a dozen shipping companies in New York City and other Atlantic and Gulf ports. TIME has learned that the trusted men who worked so closely with the Mafia and its allies in the International Longshoremen's Association were...
...remarkable undercover operation began in 1976, when officials of an East Coast shipping firm told the agency about making payoffs to the I.L.A. to get cargoes loaded more quickly. The extortion ring reportedly collected between $3 million and $5 million on a yearly basis. In December a federal grand jury in New York indicted Fred R. Field Jr., a top official of the I.L.A., for allegedly shaking down the United Brands Co. for nearly...
...m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked a share of his earnings for a worthy cause: medical treatment for his frostbitten chin and knee...
...muscleman show at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. "We couldn't get it for less than $35,000," he notes sadly. For the opening night of Silver Streak, a comedy involving a runaway train, Zarem wanted a black-tie dinner in the middle of Grand Central Station. When Producer Frank Yablans balked, the party was held, more conventionally, at the posh Tavern-on-the-Green-another of Zarem's clients...