Word: luring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bankrolling a motion picture has always been half investment, half gamble: the percentage of flicks that flop is an astonishing 70%. In the best of times-which these are not-the lure of the long shot attracted enough moneyed players to keep the game alive. In recent years, however, recession, declining profits and rising costs have sent the movie industry into a dizzying downward spiral...
...center. Mothers are no longer wary about coming into the library with their unpredictable children, who are occasionally entertained there by a local high school girl softly strumming a guitar. The real gain is that book circulation has increased. Mrs. Phipps may have hit upon the perfect gambit to lure the marginal reader who thinks all reading and no conversation makes the library a dull place...
...enervating drag and his marriage a ritual of programmed indifference. For kicks he takes up voyeurism. One night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor lair. At one point she practically...
...indeed disgusted at the greedy, irresponsible airlines that lure American young people abroad with no thought of where they will go or where they will stay when they arrive. Unless these kids can contribute to foreign economies instead of creating vagrancy problems, they should stay home. You won't find any blue-jeaned Dutch youngsters bedding down in Central Park. Hang the new "bargains...
...search also produced reactions that Sheriff William Estes, who was in charge of the search, characterized as "nutty": crank callers suggested dressing the search teams in Santa Claus costumes to lure Kevin from the woods, or broadcasting the jingling song of an ice cream truck. After several fruitless days, the desperate searchers tried one of the schemes: the forest echoed eerily with the strains of one of Kevin's favorite songs, I Love Trash from Sesame Street...