Word: pan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that a pimp and a hustler could look like folk heroes here presents the first sequences which portray homosexuality and Jewish ethnicity without smirking at their subjects. Some affectation is still present: a wayward bedside TV set, which brings back bad memories of Sylvia Miles'; a sinuous pan up Elkin's body as seen by Alex through a shower curtain; postured bit-playing by effete types at Hirsh's house. For the most part, however, Schlesinger has not overpowered his script, but served it. With the aid of Peter Finch (Daniel), Glenda Jackson (Alex), and despite the too-callow Murray...
...latest eruption came after Pan Am and TWA sent officers to Washington two weeks ago to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to intervene in the fare fight. In a complex and involved maneuver, the lines wanted the CAB to ask the State Department to put pressure on the West German government; with that, the Bonn government was supposed to put pressure on Lufthansa to reconsider its new fares (as low as $210 round trip in the off-season...
...Figuring that the German government would balk if it knew that the U.S. airlines had directly inspired the diplomatic maneuver, the Pan Am and TWA officers asked that part of the 29-page transcript of their meeting with the CAB members be kept secret. No such luck. The CAB men, miffed that the lines wanted to bring the State Department into the act, put the transcript on public sale -at $1.50 a page...
...Summertime Blues. If Pan Am and TWA were to match Lufthansa's new fares, the companies' spokesmen said, they would stand to lose a combined total of about $60 million in revenues next year. To turn a profit on the North Atlantic (last year Pan Am lost $7 million and TWA earned $14.1 million on that route), the lines would have to fly their planes 75% full on the average. "Given the seasonal characteristics of this market," said TWA Senior Vice President Elaine Cook, "to average 75% year round, you would have to maintain something like...
...situation comedy has long been the most outlandish and outmoded of the television genres. No man is Gilligan's Island. Whatever network programming vice presidents think, there is a difference between a fantasy classic like Peter Pan and a Screen Gems gimmick show like The Flying...