Word: importent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play mildly captures a sense of feeling. I never felt I was watching the art of Steinbeck. Edward Zwick, Director, has attempted to day so true to Steinbeck's mere "story" concept that he succeeds in presenting a disconnected production which floats above the surface of any lasting import. Whether or not there is meaning to Of Mice and Men, Zwick fails to move his actors towards the limitless emotion of Steinbeck's characters. Consequently, the Loeb version lacks the display of a certain vigor to search, not for meaning, but for some expressive value stronger than dramatic dialogue...
...import from Britain, this five-part serialization of the Thackeray classic is one of the bright spots in the fall TV season. The story of Becky Sharp, English fiction's most famous social climber, Vanity Fair is a comedy of manners and immorals in Regency England...
...audience," Loomis says. He would emphasize educational and cultural shows like Sesame Street and Masterpiece Theater, which this month began showing a British-made five-part serialization of Vanity Fair. Indeed, if funds become any tighter, many more shows will have an English accent since it is cheaper to import a show than produce it. "Public broadcasting," Loomis asserts, "is complementary to the basic system in this country-which is commercial." He has no intention of asking for long-range financing of public TV for a while, a move that would mean greater freedom from political control. He adds...
...part form. The first, "A Stone of Day 1949-50" is the description of a weekend at Dawes's grandfather's farm. Dawes's parents are nice, intelligent, and liberal, but they're not outstanding. His grandparents are unique. His grandfather believes in "The Elementary Need and the Universal Import of the Competitive Drive in Man." His grandmother makes Dawes listen to every preacher on the radio all Sunday morning. But even they are unimportant compared to the one great influence in Dawes' early life: Abigail Winas...
Ponto spent his early childhood in Ecuador and Chile, where his German father ran an export-import business. After the war he studied at Göttingen, Hamburg, Zurich, Cambridge and the University of Washington, where he did half a year of graduate work in international law. He joined Dresdner Bank in 1950 "out of curiosity about figures," and by 1969 made it to chief executive...