Word: maker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Carter intends to be tough in defending the dollar and fighting inflation, so that they will go on buying and investing. That view has some support even among businessmen who concede that the new program will cause them some trouble. Robert Corson, treasurer of Foxboro Co., a Massachusetts maker of controlling and recording instruments, warned his collection agents that they may have to lean harder on customers to pay their bills: "People try to get free credit out of their suppliers when it gets harder to borrow elsewhere." Nonetheless, he says, "people are glad to see some measures being...
Behind the public image, another side of the Pope was emerging: that of a strong-minded decision maker. Instead of rubber-stamping the reappointments of senior Curia officials, John Paul announced that he needed time to ponder them. That stirred flutters of prelatic concern?was a reshuffle in store? He did fill the top Curia post of Secretary of State by reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease...
...Annie Hall and Interiors, is that of an awkward, clumsy, neurotic, unconfident, hapless little man who manages to maintain a sense of irony and self-awareness throughout his mishaps and setbacks. Even when he gets the woman the self-mocking tone is always present. So why would a documentary-maker not immediately try to find out how much of this image Allen believes to be true of himself? Any film of Woody Allen's life which ignores his psychology and his subconscious mind is doomed to be of quite limited value toward understanding...
...parents' dominant values were God and carpet." In all movies in which his parents appear, they are heavily parodied. In few interviews does he mention his parents or his childhood in any but the most joking tones, the most passing references. One would suppose the serious documentary-maker would take Woody's desire to avoid that period of life as a full-speed ahead signal to explore another potentially crucial source of Allen's humor and another central clue to what makes up Allen the man. One can only conclude that Mantell is not a serious documentary maker...
Teevens can toss the pill as well as anyone in the Ivies--he nearly played the miracle-maker in last year's 31-25 Harvard win--and he has Dave Shula (Don's son) and Jim Eden to throw...