Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the economy recovering and less need for escape, attendance in the first three months of this year dropped 10% below a year earlier. Studio chiefs need something to bring the patrons back. And it is the big-budget movies that have been drawing the crowds. The Godfather cost Paramount (now a subsidiary of Gulf + Western) $6 million to make, and so far has returned $145 million in worldwide rentals. Jaws (production cost: $9 million) probably will bring Universal and its corporate parent. MCA Inc., $180 million by the time it completes its first runs worldwide. Warner Brothers...
United Effort. Despite Humphrey's showing of the flag for Brown, he agreed in a phone conversation with Carter that party unity is of paramount importance. According to Carter staffers, Humphrey is thinking of endorsing Carter at some time after the last primaries on June 8. As Manhattan Borough President Percy...
...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...
...emphasis on welcoming each Catholic individual and developing strong interpersonal relationships is paramount to the present ministry." This concern radically differs from the emphasis of last year's ministry and the students have felt that difference. A broader spectrum of students is being reached. As the Vatican II document entitled The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World states, "the beginning, the subject, and the goal of all social institutions is and must be the human person . . ." It stresses that the growth of a community of mankind must parallel the growing interdependence of people. It is that interdependence...
...emphasis on welcoming each Catholic individual and developing strong interpersonal relationships is paramount to the present ministry. And while Powers recognizes the necessity of maintaining a "committment to peace and social justice" he also perceives the demand on him to be more of a spiritual nature...