Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government prevent U.S. carriers from starting competing bargain services. Whether that happens probably depends on what progress U.S. and British negotiators make in concluding a new agreement to regulate the number of flights and seats offered on the North Atlantic route. The Bermuda Agreement between the two countries expires midnight Tuesday. The British demand that in a new pact their lines receive half the revenues produced by flights between the U.S. and Britain, v. about 30% at present. The U.S. argues that nearly three-quarters of that traffic is generated on its shores and that the British are trying primarily...
...albums, figurines of the movie's fantastic characters, such as Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca-and the company stands to stash away a lot of cash. On top of that. Fox has in distribution several other movies that are hot at the box office, including The Other Side of Midnight and Silver Streak...
...OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT...
...into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...
...Midnight blatantly caters to tabloid feminine fantasies. Given a strong narrative surge and one or two vigorously hammy performances, it might have been good, trashy fun-a throwback to the overblown women's melodramas of two or three decades ago. But the film lacks the courage of its own vulgarity...