Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tommy's brags only a few choice machines, but many of the top area games people gather there to challenge the Alpine slopes or drive a bouncy little racer into oblivion. Mel, the Bookseller, the bearded gent who sits in the corner near the jukebox most afternoons, gives Tommy's five stars, mumbling something about space creatures in his office...
...came up with Four Chamber Works, a winner, even though it has a rough start. Musically, Septet is a droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo San Goh that in their lengthy constructs one might discover a really good six-minute ballet...
This is a touch of Mel Brooks rather than Ernst Lubitsch, though elsewhere Korda exhibits a considerable talent for imitating the sophisticated innuendoes of that German-born film maker. Worldly Goods is, in fact, a trove of mimicked styles. Beyond its undeniable entertainment qualities, the book can be read as a clinic on what publishers call a page-turner. The author-editor goes one step further and ensures subliminal product identification, with his name centered at the top of every other page...
...striking fact about almost every debtor in real trouble is that he has no idea how much he owes-much less what exorbitant interest he is usually paying. "The first thing we have to do is sit down and figure out what actually gets spent in the home," says Mel Stiller, head of the four advisers who process 1,700 cases a year at the C.C.C.S. in Boston. "People will figure the major items like rent and food, but they don't stop to consider the dinners out or the haircuts or the newspapers. Those...
...fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h. In a jerry-built fortress, the more admirable survivors have assembled an oil refinery-but, surrounded by the marauders, they cannot escape to use their precious petrol. Into this version of cattlemen vs. homesteaders rides a scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image of paradise: the seacoast, 200 miles away...