Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME Directed by JAN KADAR Screenplay by TED ALLAN
...After TIME selected King as its Man of the Year (Jan. 3, 1964), Assistant FBI Director William Sullivan sent a plan to Hoover for dealing with King by "taking him off his pedestal and reducing his influence." With King discredited, Sullivan wrote, the FBI could promote another black man as the leader of the civil rights movement. That man, a relatively unknown New York attorney and a Republican, only recently learned of the plan; he was stunned and asked the committee not to reveal his name...
...applicant can expect immediate discharge from his job, while facing a probable turndown or, at best, many months of delay before leaving. These people depend heavily on donations from relatives and friends abroad to survive. Gifts of money are already subject to an exorbitant 65% tax. But on Jan. 1, a new regulation will end completely the transfer of the dollar gift vouchers that have been redeemable in food and clothing...
Czech Director Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) handles all his vignettes dryly, distantly, without the slightest excess of emotion. Normally such discipline, especially in an age of over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant...
Last week, for example, an investor putting up $250 could have bought on the C.B.O.E. an option to purchase 100 shares of Polaroid at $40 a share any time before Jan. 31. Polaroid was then selling at $37.50. If by the end of January it were to rise to, say, $45, the option buyer could buy the stock itself at $40, sell immediately at $45, and make $500 on 100 shares; subtracting the $250 he had paid for the option would still leave a profit of $250, less commissions, in less than three months. Alternatively, if he did not want...