Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island. Talbott gathered notes on the Soviet presence, spoke with Cubans about Africa, and met with Fidel Castro for 2½ hours of freewheeling discussion. "Most heads of state I've encountered seem weighted down by their jobs," reports Talbott. "Not the Cuban Premier. He obviously has a lot of fun being Fidel Castro-and he does it well...
...does Joe Califano spend $182 billion?" asked a pharmacist. "The answer is that he can't. He wastes a lot of it." In the 25-year history of HEW there has never been a clearer explanation of the problem, given with such an economy of language...
...Unmarried Woman--For some reason, a lot of critics went beserk over this film, praising it from here to Kokomo as a major advance and a triumph for director Paul Mazursky, who brought us Next Stop, Greenwich Village a few years ago. We can't understand why anyone likes this insipid tale of a hip New York couple that hits the skids for no apparent reason. Jill Clayburgh is appealing but not too good as the put-upon protagonist who is suddenly forced to restructure her shattered life. All in all, An Unmarried Woman presents a shallow and almost unbelievably...
...month apartment in Los Angeles' Marina del Rey, they fought the eviction in municipal court and lost. Now they live in a condominium at roughly twice the cost of their old apartment, and are appealing the case under California civil rights law. If they win, a lot of ADULTS ONLY signs will come down, at least in California: an estimated 60% of Los Angeles apartments do not rent to children, a figure that climbs to 75% for apartments under $450 a month and up to 80% in the city's much sought-after West Side. Elsewhere...
...supporting role in a William Inge play, A Loss of Roses. Though the show flopped on Broadway, Elia Kazan happened to see it. "I liked Warren right away," the director recalls now. "He was awkward in a way that was attractive. He was very, very ambitious. He had a lot of hunger, as all the stars do when they are young." Kazan signed Beatty immediately for Splendor in the Grass; to this day, Kazan remains Warren's favorite director...