Word: locust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood making a movie out of The Day of the Locust is like the Lilliputians mounting a production of Gulliver's Travels. The scale is off; the distance is wrong...
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...Western Europe's war-shattered economy in a successful effort that brilliantly proved his argument that "prosperity is the best antidote to Communism." As chief of the United Nations Development Program, from 1959 to 1972, he spent his "most fascinating" years funding projects ranging from dam surveys to locust extermination in a hundred countries...
...When Actor Donald Sutherland, 37, was signed for Paramount's movie The Day of the Locust last August, he asked for and got an unusual clause in his contract: paternity leave. It seems that Actress Francine Racette, 27, with whom he had been living for two years, was expecting. To prepare for the baby's birth, the couple studied the Bradley method, a natural-birth technique in which the father helps deliver the child. Last week, when Francine's labor began, he took her to West Park Hospital in Los Angeles County and provided last-minute coaching...
...Broadway antics in Angel in the Wings (1948), Hartman appeared frequently on television and made numerous films, among them Inherit the Wind (1960) and Luv (1967). He had recently begun preparing for a major supporting role in a movie of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust...