Word: pan
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Laker thus becomes the first victim of the airfare wars that he originally started. Fierce price competition is also threatening the solvency of American carriers such as Pan Am and Braniff. Last summer Laker admitted that the airline business had become "a hell of a poker game." Sir Freddie, and his planes, will be missed by thousands of budget travelers on both sides of the Atlantic...
Evita earned $27 million during its two-year run at the Shubert; Peter Pan, which plays in a former movie house, the Pantages, made $482,706, a local record, in the week ending Jan. 3; the Wilshire has just reopened after refurbishing with A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. Yet producers of smaller plays, some of them by California playwrights, occasionally find it harder to locate theaters than audiences. William Bushnell, producing director of the L.A. Actors Theater, had no trouble filling his 174-seat house with Frank South's Two by South. But when he tried...
...Crown Prince Fahd proposed a peace plan that might, at least, have formed a basis for negotiation. In effect, the plan would offer Arab recognition, or at least acceptance, to Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized in the 1967 war. But, when presented to a pan-Arab summit conference in Fez, Morocco, last October, the proposal proved to be so controversial that the meeting broke up within a few hours...
...however, there are signs that the Arabs are moving toward greater unity. Last month Syrian President Hafez Assad visited the Saudis, with whom he has often disagreed, and received some support. He and the Saudis may even have laid the ground work for a new pan-Arab summit, at which the Syrians could be expected to endorse a beefed-up version of the Fahd proposals. Assad and the Saudis also agreed to renew their efforts to end the ongoing war between Iran and Iraq, and the Saudis offered to try to mediate Syria's long-standing differences with Iraq...
...suburban Walpurgisnacht, in which a sedentary couple are driven beyond distraction by the bizarre boorishness of the folks next door. For this to work in the movies it must be played either with the film equivalent of Berger's fastidious prose-Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi...