Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columnist Joseph Kraft studies the Democratic field, staring at the political teeth, smacking the ideological haunches. Max Lerner agrees with many commentators, including the Chicago Tribune's Michael Kilian, that the Reagan landslide has "all but wiped out Ted's strategic position." The Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling demurs: "[Edward Kennedy] seems well positioned to become the de facto head of the party-and to be its 1984 presidential candidate." Meantime, New York magazine's Michael Kramer knocks out the Republican early form: "Where is Kemp today? He is a front runner...
...cool under fire. Shocked by the 8:15:21 bomb, ABC's crew rushed to catch up-and proceeded to call two races wrong. Retracting his prediction of victory for incumbent Governor William Clinton in Arkansas, a slightly sheepish Max Robinson called Clinton's defeat "a stunning upset...
...Max Romotsky of Waltham debated the proposition last night with Jack Pinzone of Watertown. Romotsky said he would vote for the proposition because it would "force the state to start lifting some of the burden off real estate." He added that Massachusetts needs a broader-based tax. Pinzone disagreed, saying Proposition 2 1/2 was not the best measure for reforming the Commonwealth's tax system...
...girl, Dale Arden, has become a working woman-a travel agent. And the hand-cranked special effects of Buster Crabbe's day have given way to Star Wars technics. Arch enemy Ming the Merciless hasn't changed a bit. Still "a mixture of Mephisto and Rasputin," says Max von Sydow, who portrays him. "I haven't had such fun since I played a monster who ate children at a Stockholm children's theater...
...many cases, the unkindest cuts of movie moguls have been restored decades later by heroic film scholars. Together again for the first time: King Kong, in which the great ape engages in vigorous foreplay with Fay Wray; Welles' Macbeth and Touch of Evil; Max Ophuls' magnificent melodrama Lola Monies; and Sergio Leone's great homage to John Ford, Once Upon a Time in the West...