Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consider, for example, Altman's 1971 film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. In one scene, a young, rangy, buck-toothed cowboy (Keith Carradine) who has just spent the night in McCabe's frontier whorehouse, starts across a footbridge to purchase supplies for his trip home. He is confronted by a young gunman, one of three sent by a business conglomerate to coerce McCabe into selling out. The gunman, blond, boyish, and innocent-looking, asks Carradine what kind of gun he has. Carradine tells him, sheepishly admitting that he really doesn't know how to use it. "Come...
...McCabe and Mrs. Miller undermines the modern mythification of the American past, The Long Goodbye (1973) exposes the improbability of a more contemporary American hero: the private eye, as created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Altman's Philip Marlowe (Elliot Gould) is an anachronism. His stocks in trade--intelligence, independence and integrity--are pitifully inadequate weapons with which to confront modern, large-scale, organized corruption...
Harvard's firts doubles team of Katie Ditzler and Leslie Miller lost 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 in the finals to Nancy Robison and Emily McMahon from Tufts, coming up on the short end of a 5-3 tiebreaker...
...weaker dollar, claiming that it would encourage American sales abroad; and a year ago, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal was arguing that the dollar was too expensive, and tried to talk its value down. Fortunately that view has been forcefully dismissed. Says Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller: "Any idea that it is in the interest of the U.S. to have a weak dollar, to have a lower dollar, is false prophecy. It is just not right...
...student recruiter may take an active interest in a candidate after the initial contact at the high school, advising him throughout the application process, "as long as the student recruiter uses common sense and acts in a realistic way," Miller said...