Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars now account for 33% of all sales. That is double their market share in 1966 and far more than Detroit had expected. Luxury cars are also selling well: both Cadillac and the Continental Mark III are seeing sales records. Despite the runaway pace of total sales, the product mix is far from the most profitable for U.S. automakers...
Laslo Benedek's methodical direction and Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic. Random composition is all very well in contemporary art; in the traditional thriller, it is an unwanted and fatal guest...
However, the film gets inextricably bogged down when the mercenaries mix with the peasants. Clavell's characters are dull when they're not in action; the soldiers are grossly sensual and self-serving, and, as is equally realistic, the peasants are stolid, superstitious folk. But Clavell remains outside them: the only characters he feels comfortable with are those of Caine and Sharif, the former having the remaining good lines. (All-suffering Sharif complains bitterly that one of his favorite country maidens is one of a group picked to whore for the soldiers in exchange for protection. Says Caine: "Three months...
...lesson to be learned from this is one we know too well already. Bureaucracy and confrontation polities don't mix. The City is essentially Nixon-style political oppression on a smaller scale, and no one knows if rent control will ever bring relief to tenants or simply continue as a political ball to bat around...
Accent on Newlyweds. Above all else, business opportunities in the 1970s will be affected by startling changes in the age mix of the U.S. population. Because of the low birth rate, population rose only 1.1% last year, to 206 million. Census experts envisage an increase of only 1.3% a year until 1975 and 1.4%-a-year growth until 1980 (to about 230 million). Fully one-third of that increase will come among 25-to 34-year-olds; they were born during the postwar "baby boom," and are now becoming newlyweds themselves...