Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since the election, Beame has lived up to his image. His statements have been cautions and non-committal ("he'll never give you an answer the first time around," remarked an aide), and the five en he has named to a commission to guide the transfer of power from Lindsay's administration to his own are all old-line civil servants, usually 30-40 years older than Lindsay's aides...
They are profiting from the resurgence of faith in the old party organization. The eight flashy years of the Lindsay administration are regarded as a failure and the myth that a tight Democratic organization can run things well--the false philosophy that mayors like Richard Daley of Chicago provide better city services than "reformers" like Lindsay--has turned and electorate toward the leaders and their unexciting candidate...
...Dancer Gwen Verdon, 47, as a comical Little Red Ridinghood, and Actress Julie Newmar, 38, as the White Cat. Newmar rises to a majestic 6 ft. 10 in. on her toes, towering over her National Ballet partner Dean Badolato, 5 ft. 4 in. Said Julie regretfully, "I wanted John Lindsay to partner me. After all, he's done everything else." Instead, the mayor was recruited to help carry onstage the White Cat, who will be seated on a cushion, purring...
Bridges' hero is a bright law student named Hart (Timothy Bottoms). Hart fears Kingsfield yet feels a cockeyed respect for him. He divides his time between going up against Kingsfield in the classroom and cuddling up with his daughter Susan (Lindsay Wagner), for whom he develops a healthy passion. Bridges is concerned with the cruelty of an academic system-and by extension, a whole system of professional survival-that measures success by assigning letters or numerals or awarding documents. Yet the grades seem just as important to him as to his hero. The dramatic device that gives The Paper...
...Lindsay Davis, this Dracula's director, provides a background soundtrack, but his inability to think of more than two or three ways for a vampire to sidle up menacingly behind his victim's back means that the sidlings quickly become repetitious. Less excusable is the distressing obviousness with which Renfield eavesdrops on everyone's conversations: the Victorians may have been dumb, but surely they weren't deaf and blind...