Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, and TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white lie that he had been talking to his wife, and when he got off the phone, one guest shouted: "He's just been offered the regional HUD job in Mississippi!" By next morning, the word was all over official Washington that Califano was a candidate for Secretary of Commerce, HEW or Housing and Urban Development...
About 100 yards from the mansion, some 20 journalists stood in the rain and near-freezing temperatures, vainly trying to glean scraps of information. The first candidate to arrive was black Washington Lawyer Patricia Roberts Harris, whom Carter is believed to be considering for Secretary of HEW or HUD. When she realized that the shivering people at the iron gate were reporters, she exclaimed: "Oh, if I'd known it was you, I wouldn't have stopped!" Then she rolled up her window and sped off. When Mondale departed, a Secret Service bodyguard thumbed his nose at the reporters...
...former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
Died. James Wong Howe, 76, Oscar-winning cinematographer (for The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Hud, 1963); after a long illness; in Hollywood. Born in China and named Wong Tung Jim, the diminutive (5 ft.) Howe was so harassed by his Pasco, Wash., schoolmates that he became a professional prizefighter. Seeing a Mack Sennett comedy being filmed in the streets, he asked for a job as cameraman but was rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield...
Some interesting and normally intelligent actors are involved in this nonsense. Robert Shaw is the master crook, and Martin Ritt, better known as a director (Hud, Sounder, Conrack), plays the Swiss cop who is his nemesis. Jon Voight plays Ritt's assistant - and unwitting tool - while Jacqueline Bisset does time as lover to both Shaw and Voight. Their skills are all frittered aimlessly away in a movie that offers slowness of pace as an earnest of artistic integrity. The only emotion that the audience is likely to work up watching this unconscionable bore is an irresistible desire...