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...organize; moving, with precise editing, to a gloomy yet somehow very inspiring ending. Set in Turin in the late 19th century, this film has a photographic restraint which keeps it from preaching. Monicelli never overdoes a scene. He presents striking scenery, for example, in a mature way: not to impress the viewer in David Lean style, but to pace the film so as to create an impression as strongly intellectual as it is visual. In A Drama of Jealousy (and other things), Marcello is back in a more familiar role as a jealous husband. This film was originally titled...
Geffen was made an agent within 18 months, and left three years later to become a talent manager in Hollywood. Unable to impress film stars, he turned to rock titans, built up a solid list of clients (Joni Mitchell; Laura Nyro; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and made his first million at age 25. Geffen launched the Asylum label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records...
...thousands of Cubans attended a mass rally in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion. In deference to Castro, who was wearing his inevitable fatigues, the Soviet Party Chief, 67, abandoned his customary dark business suit for a casual tunic jacket and a white Panama hat. Anxious to impress the shirt-sleeved masses with his own blue-collar credentials, Brezhnev told the rally that he, his father and brother had all worked in a steel mill...
These problems are no excuse for continuing illegal highway blockades. "Holding the public hostage because there is a fuel shortage would be totally irresponsible and counterproductive," says Thomas C. Schumacher Jr., managing director of the California Trucking Association. Such talk does not impress the truckers. One driver, sitting in the cab of a tractor-trailer that was blocking traffic approaching the Delaware Memorial Bridge last week, said: "We want Nixon and his people, when they turn on their television sets, to hear...
...Senate committee that there was only one sure cure for U.S. fuel shortages: "power to create a barrel of oil or gasoline." His appointment as head of the new Federal Energy Administration will not make him that kind of magician, but it will vastly enhance his ability to impress on the rest of Government a sense of urgency about the energy crisis. Simon has been displaying that urgency for months...