Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...
...Mocking Greed. Slowly, they built up a reputation on the nightclub circuit. Then, four months ago Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek gave them a 15-minute TV go with spectacular results. Currently, they are at Chicago's Mister Kelly's at $2,500 a week...
...Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
...investigated, the McClellan committee bore down hardest on the biggest, richest and most powerful of them all: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which, said the committee, can "stop the nation's economic pulse." The committee accused ousted Teamster President Dave Beck of "thievery" arising from "uncontrollable greed"; it said that the Teamsters' new president, James Hoffa, runs "a hoodlum empire." Said the report: "The power of the Teamsters Union president is extraordinary . . . that this power is now lodged in the hands of a man such as Hoffa [is] tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country...
...denied credit by none." His son Jaimie goes along mainly to escape high school, feeling himself "already educated to the point of absurdity." As they pick up companions along the way, the McPheeters party grows into as fine a concourse of nitwitted adventurers as ever washed a pan in greed. Among those present...