Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration carry on a virtual witch hunt to find and name violators of the anti-inflation price guidelines. Staff members of the Council on Wage and Price Stability have said for weeks that they have been under orders to find someone-anyone-who is breaking the guidelines. Notes Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The wage and price control program has been a failure, and they're looking for someone to blame...
...trade and Middle East policy. Businessmen consider Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal to be too wounded by sniping from the White House's Georgia Mafia to be an effective envoy. Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps is the Cabinet's best bridge between the White House and business, but, says Jack Carlson, "she heads a weak Cabinet department and does not have the clout...
...Billy Williams and Stan Musial 40)Dave Kingman 41)Mickey Mantle, Pete Rose and Reggie Smith 42)Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Reggie Smith and Dusty Baker of the Los Angeles Dodgers 43)Don Drysdale 44)Jerry Reuss 45)Warren Spahn 46)Mike Corkins 47)Frank Robinson 48)Jack Fisher 49)Willie Kirkland 50)Cliff Melton 51)Mace Brown...
...film's mode might be described as bargain-basement Graham Greene. The hero, an American expatriate named Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), is a pimp who, irony of ironies, has a heart of gold. Jack cares for his clients and his employees, provides for his friends, avoids depraved sex and even talks to cats. He is the proverbial good man in a bad time (1971, approaching the end of Viet Nam) and a first-class bore. Even his day-to-day working life lacks thrills. Most of the time Gazzara just wanders about aimlessly with a rueful grin plastered...
...typically down-and-out British colonial, the actors do little to help the proceedings. Gazzara is fairly blameless, given his flat role, but the miscasting of his con-man nemesis is a disaster. Had a strong actor played the villain, who recalls Harry Lime in The Third Man, Saint Jack might have had some tension and dramatic heft. Instead, the director has placed himself in the role and then played it tepidly. No doubt it is healthy for Bogdanovich to be adventurous, but, for now, his new directions all appear to be wrong turns...