Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller Center's "Showplace of the Nation," the theater became proof positive for millions of Americans that there was no bigness like show bigness. Something preposterously grand about the Music Hall raised it above its nearby (and now nearly forgotten) movie-palace rivals, like the Roxy or the Paramount: its scale, its colossal adornments, its dizzying spaciousness. Its founding impresario, the late S.L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, loved to boast that it was the largest indoor theater in the world...
...Wilder changes his name to Rudy Valentine and moves to Hollywood to compete for the "World's Greatest Lover" role in a studio ad campaign. The couple's proximity to the real Valentino is too much for Annie, who leaves her husband to track down her dream lover at Paramount Studios...
THESE FLAWS, HOWEVER, are minor in comparison to the gross mistake of casting Dom DeLuise as Adolph Zitz, the head of Paramount's rival studio. DeLuise, whose only attributes are obesity, overacting and the ability to strangle on cue, wields his demeanor like a sledgehammer and leaves viewers so unsettled that it takes them a while to remember what the rest of the movie is about. Once he appears on the screen with his insipid lackeys and his hapless barber-valet, it is hard for the nicer elements of the plot to reassert themselves...
...defense of a just cause would I take up arms, so to speak. For now I felt I had stepped into a vaster and more beautiful world and my capacity for endurance redoubled. I felt I could stand the pressure whatever the magnitude of a given problem. My paramount object was to make people happy. To see a smile, to feel that another man's heart beat for joy was to me a source of immeasurable happiness. I identified with people's joys...
...define politics. I have always found it puzzling and could not provide a precise definition. All I know is that I have been brought up to nurture certain values from childhood to maturity, even to this day when I am President of Egypt, and have been moved by the paramount desire to save Egypt from its besetting troubles and help it advance toward perfection and beauty...