Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Landlords usually get between 25% and 30% of the weekly gross. This is an enormous slice, and many producers and actors insist that the theater owners are the real villains of the situation. When Landlord John Shubert complained that the Equity tactics represented a threat to culture, one New York columnist remarked: "That amounts to Attila the Hun denouncing a threat to Christian civilization...
...scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from now, crowded India will have 80 million more mouths to feed; unless...
...walks himself into exhaustion, and desperately kills time in movie houses. Compared to Brother Julian, though, Charlie's not 'arf bad. Julian, married and an advertising writer, is a compulsive, indiscriminate lecher without being really lustful. At the moment he is in real trouble, having got his landlord's teen-age daughter pregnant. His wife knows, and soon all his family knows...