Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOODBYE GIRL Directed by Herbert Ross Screenplay by Neil Simon...
Dreyfuss aside, The Goodbye Girl is not without its unpretentious merits, the most notable of which is Neil Simon's script. Though the film relies heavily on the mechanical plot devices of '40s boy-meets-girl movies, Simon keeps gratuitous punch lines to a minimum and shows an open-hearted concern for his fetching characters. Unfortunately, The Goodbye Girl's direction has been entrusted to Herbert Ross (The Turning Point), a film maker who has a bizarre knack for making almost any screenplay look as if it were written for radio. This time around he photographs...
...coaching staff of Satch Sanders, Mike Jarvis, and Buddy O'Neil is gone. With them went the days of four-hour, lackadaisical practices and a Harvard style of play that often resembled sleep walking...
...from October 1977 to September 1978) will bring record sales of more than 15 million cars and trucks. (The previous high, set in 1973, was 14 million.) Irwin Kellner, economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover Bank, agrees that the economy is "in fine shape." Adds Economist Herbert Neil of Chicago's Harris Trust: "A solid recovery is going...
...hacks and demagogues have survived the election; Councilors Albert "Dapper" O'Neil and Frederick C. Langone did retain their seats. But the three losers, Councilors Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan and School Committee member Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, each represented a special facet of Boston's malevolent underside. Whether Hicks and Palladino gain the hundred odd votes they need to win in a recount remains irrelevant because, compared to previous elections, this year's results are a clear repudiation of the trinity that stood for patronage and prejudice...