Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alpine chalet where Hermann is hiding. In the book, his mania produces the possibility of a brilliant escape. He yells to the crowd of onlookers, "Frenchmen! This is a rehearsal ... A famous film actor will presently come running out of this house. He is an archcriminal, but he must escape Hold those policemen, knock them down, sit on them - we pay them for it." In the movie he says these lines, but, un accountably, only after he has been captured, when the old master's marvelous conceit has lost its point...
...Marcel Marceau's wife, but on the stage France's master of mime favors the silent treatment. Fresh from a three year, 53-city tour, Marceau, 55, has returned to Paris with some new acts. "It's harder and harder to innovate," he sighs. "My creations must always be more surprising." On Nov. 15 he will open a World Center for Mime on the Right Bank. The center, which already has 400 applicants, is largely underwritten by the city of Paris. "It's a dream that has been close to my heart," says Marceau...
...Toronto he listened somberly as his lawyer described him as "a tragic person" with "a poor self image" who became a heroin addict but who has now kicked the habit. A sympathetic judge put Richard on probation for one year, then tacked on an unusual condition. The guitarist must give a free performance for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind...
...farmer to complain that he does not get to spend enough time in the fields must be something new in the 10,000-year history of agriculture. But in the U.S. of 1978, Pat Benedict is archetypal of the farmers who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry and by far the biggest force holding down the trade deficit. Revolutionary changes are sweeping the croplands, making agriculture an increasingly capital-intensive, hightechnology, mass-production business. As a result, U.S. farmers are dividing into two distinct classes. Small farmers, who do not have the technical expertise...
Meanwhile, a sweeping change in federal farm laws enacted in 1973 has forced farmers to become marketing specialists. Nearly all crops these days must be sold on the private market. Washington will make cash payments to farmers if market prices fall below Government-set "target prices" that supposedly cover most?not all?production costs. But no longer will Uncle Sam buy and store crops to prop the price; federal purchases these days are limited to small amounts for foreign aid, school-lunch programs and the like. Instead, the Government encourages farmers to store on their own land any produce they...