Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...Swedish psychiatrist, the novel (491) on which the film is based is "probably the best textbook on youth psychiatry ever to have appeared." U.S. and European critics have praised the film. When 491 reached New York in 1964, however, U.S. customs men barred it as an "immoral" import. In upholding the ban, U.S. District Judge Henry N. Graven ruled that 491 met all the Supreme Court tests of obscenity. "To the average person applying contemporary community (national) standards," held Graven, the film's "dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest." In addition, he said...
...Congress-have been transformed almost beyond recognition since then. Judged not only by the volume of legislation passed-which is unparalleled-but also by its direction, diversity and ultimate impact, the 89th may well rank in history's view as one of the most effective Congresses. The real import of the 89th lies in the shape of its influence on the future. Many of its far-reaching programs are now only beginning to make what surely will be a historic impact on American society...
...this Off-Broadway import from England, the setting is a boiler room, and virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance...
...ease East-West tensions, announced a dramatic liberalization of trade with Moscow and the satellites, removing hundreds of items from the list of goods that American businessmen have been prohibited from selling the Communists. Among them: machinery and equipment, whose purchase is to be financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, for use in the Fiat automobile factory in Togliatti. There may yet be a Ford in Ivan's future...