Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ninety minutes of debate were not enough for a few Faculty members at last Tuesday's Faculty meeting. Following the defeat of the two major sections of the Cavell motion--which would have extended the Staff Tuition Scholarship (STS) program and the present need criteria for one year--exiting Faculty stopped outside University Hall to give picketing Graduate Student Union members an impromptu lecture on the current financial situation...
...outdone, Union members had a few words to say in return. Linking arms to prevent the Faculty from leaving, the graduate students tried to read a Union statement they had composed as they listened to the motion's defeat over WHRB...
...from the victims of those days, and his own experience as an actor--he played Napoleon Solo in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." He tells us, at the very end of the book, that he has undertaken to do a study of blacklisting in the theatre, to the exclusion of motion pictures, television and radio, but he devotes most of his book to motion pictures, television and radio. Vaughn's book is far too diffuse, far too unstructured, and far too confusing to serve as the valuable reference source it could have been if he had done a better...
Like Maria, Tuesday has always had the reputation of being a difficult performer to work with. Like Maria, she has had a troubled private life that has made her something of an untouchable flower in lotus land. "Miss Weld is not a very good representative for the motion-picture industry," complained Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Hollywood's dragon lady, when Tuesday was 16 and the star of a seemingly endless series of sex-at-the-beach type minipics. Actually, Tuesday's sins-odd clothing, bare feet and open love affairs -would have seemed quite normal a decade later...
...prosperous conglomerate, piling one acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer of The Godfather, which will probably be the biggest moneymaker in cinema history...