Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER is a relentless parable of a modern Job, based on Bernard Malamud's prize-winning novel. Under the inventive and often brilliant direction of John Frankenheimer, the actors-especially Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde-bring to the film a truly Dostoevskian resonance and moral force...
Asking the culprit is not much help. One standard reply is that he is working on an article about shoplifting, and wanted to pull only one job so as to write with authority. In years past, apprehended shoplifters would often break into tears and beg for leniency. Not today. According to the security manager of a State Street store in Chicago: "Their attitude now is one of hostility and belligerence. Their outlook is 'I don't care. I've been there before.' And there's more violence-just the other day one of my people...
...television newsman in Shreveport, La., was erroneously reported to have had his car repossessed. It took him more than a year to have that false report corrected, and his battle with the credit agency has since cost him a job and a home loan...
...story is from the legend of Orpheus. Nicholas Urfe (Michael Caine), an overread, underbred London dropout, accepts a teaching job on a Greek island. In Caine's adroit impersonation, Urfe explores sensuality from Alfie to Zeta, but along the way he stumbles into a labyrinthine underworld presided over by an occult genius-The Magus. His journey begins one day when he finds a book of poems open to the lines from Little Gidding. They are to become the theme of his life...
...abandoned the illegitimate child she bore at 15 and is now herself a slow 32 years old. As for Mercy, she has no character at all; her external priggishness cloaks a savage Sapphic hunger. George is promptly cast out of the triangle and crawls, wounded, to obscurity. Her new job: the voice of a puppet called Clarabelle...