Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked overtime to build into the script bursts of quick insight. In the midst of one of Coburn's lengthy sneering speeches, he explains how he considered and then rejected the idea of buying a tropical island populated by a group of natives ready to accept him as sole owner and king. "You poor people," he realizes, "You don't deserve a good king like...
...better served by Jo seph Losey and Harold Pinter a couple of years back in The Go-Between. Once again, as in The Go-Between, class consciousness induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
...named Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. At 34, he was still listed on the guild rolls as a "stonecutter." But by then the decisive moment in his career had come; in the late 1530s, while he was working on the construction of Villa Cricoli near Vicenza, its owner took him under his wing. Giangiorgio Trissino, a wealthy humanist with a special interest in architecture, renamed his protégé Palladio, after an Angel of Architecture who appeared in one of Trissino's own cumbrous poems. He took the young man on several journeys to Rome. There, awed...
...People in this country are starving for something to do," says John Fogarty Jr., a Knoxville, Tenn., jewelry-store owner who camps with three of his children in a 25-ft. motor home on one of the Gatlinburg complexes. "Here we can do anything we want to. Play tennis, ride trails, play shuffleboard, swim, or just loaf around. The kids meet lots of other young people, both the people who are staying here and those who just come for a short time. You meet and make friends. It's the best recreation in the world." It can also...
...smoothly as lemonade and mellows your insides with a particularly warm high. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is a traditional Harvard beer guzzling haunt, but it should be avoided on principle--a waitresses' union protested the restaurant's miserable working conditions for who knows how long, and the owner fed their complaints with abusive intransigence...