Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their host's mean, green parrot that set up a racket every time Henry opened his mouth. Kissinger was resigned to the bird's preference for his bride. "That parrot can't be all bad," he said. Henry was not so tolerant of the 40-odd newsmen who were encamped at La Serena's gate. Flushed from adjoining gardens by the twelve Secret Service agents and 20 Mexican police assigned to guard the U.S. Secretary of State, the reporters and photographers followed the Kissingers' every move. Carloads pursued the couple when they went into...
With The Godfather, Coppola became a superb film craftsman. Here, as before, he has had some excellent assistance-most notably that of Production Designer Dean Tavoularis and Editor Walter Murch, who worked not only on structuring the film but also on its disquieting sound track. Noises-odd and ominous, never quite real-become progressively more unsettling...
...shortest men playing collegiate ball. The tallest is Tom Burleson, a better than adequate, if not great, 7 ft., 4 in. center and the shortest is a ball-hawking guard in Monty Towe, all of 5 ft., 51/2 in. With Thompson as the middle man around this odd couple, State has won all but one game in two years, a better record than the UCLA Bruins...
...Jewel. No one markets a movie better than Paramount's own odd couple (see boxes pages 88 and 89). An industrial-diamond-in-the-rough, Yablans, 38, orders the world around like a drill sergeant and employs a primal scream as casually as most people sneeze. The slight, agile Evans, 43, given to longpoint collars and cashmere sweaters, projects a kind of artless charm and wide-eyed aestheticism. But he is as obsessive about what he wants and is credited with being the figure who has, in show-business parlance, turned Paramount around. He runs day-to-day production...
Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little...