Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better bring your toothbrush because we keep our word." That word means jail for the second serious offense. Explains Turner: "Rather than simply emphasize the needs of the child, we also figure we have a paramount duty to protect society...
...well as his leadership in lobbying for tighter controls over nuclear proliferation. Pérez applauded Carter's stand on human rights, saying, "Many years have passed since small and weak nations heard a voice rise from a great nation to tell the world that human values are paramount." In the 43-min. toast that Pérez delivered at the state dinner, he struck one of his favorite themes: improving the dialogue between the developed and the developing countries. Later, Pérez had a post-midnight talk with Carter. "They like each other." explained...
...money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn't we make that...
Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...
...bluntly telling voters so. And an unusually alarmed electorate concurs. In the first public opinion poll of its kind, some 70% of voters voiced most concern about jobs, inflation and prices; only 2.3% think the country's position about the civil war in neighboring Northern Ireland is the paramount issue...