Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handsomely. Now, from a vantage point at the top of that ladder, Nicholson can settle in. Los Angeles is home base, where he lives with Anjelica Huston, daughter of Director John Huston (a co-star in Chinatown). From there, he and Anjelica, whom he calls Tootman, make frequent lavish forays to New York and Paris, where there are good shops, restaurants and many friends, and to Switzerland, where he likes...
...opposition. So have the major oil companies, led by Exxon, and the farm groups, which recognize that the bill would kick up prices for their members' oil and gasoline. But their opposition pales in the face of strong lobbying by the shipbuilders and the maritime unions, which give lavish campaign contributions and generous speakers' fees to legislators...
During this stay, in contrast to most of his previous visits to San Clemente, the President did not dine out, go for a drive or even play golf. Early in the week he attended a private party at Budget Director Roy Ash's mansion in Bel Air, a lavish gathering of 150 old California friends and supporters. A few days later he flew into Los Angeles by helicopter to deliver his televised economic address before a sympathetic, if somewhat restrained audience of 1,700 business leaders at the Century Plaza Hotel. The speech, billed as an effort to rally...
Frederick Raphael, who co-authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness...
...struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape keeps urging them to start group therapy sessions, and considering the speed with which they start gnawing away at each other's vitals, that is not a bad idea...