Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry has unhesitatingly responded to this avalanche of social change. One way has been to try to restore order, to look back on simpler times when people got married, stayed married, bought houses, had kids and did not question who was playing what role. (It was never really that pat, of course, but the idea that it was still sells like crazy at Christmas.) The counters are dominated this year as every year by sentimental, traditional themes: Nativity scenes (though cards have been getting increasingly secular), churches, children, sleigh riders...
...belongs to both worlds. If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street Jesus." As much as his uncertain health and assaults of melancholy, it is good taste that ultimately undoes Stahr and permits Brady and the board of directors...
...Pat D 'Alessandro Menlo Park, Calif...
...prove to be the white Southern voters who saw him as moderately conservative. Southern whites, after all, gave about three-quarters of their votes to Richard Nixon in 1972. If Carter seems to be overly attentive to blacks, they may quickly desert him. Carter's own pollster, Pat Caddell, feels that the Democratic vote among white Southerners was abnormally large; only Native Son Carter could have captured it this year...
...turn around and pat The Welles on the back, though, the theater has begun a matinee series of documentaries that shows great promise. Leni Reifenstahl's riveting, gripping and therefore horrifying Nazi propaganda film arrives this weekend. In the next cinema, Carl Jung gives a filmed interview and Dr. J.B. Rhine, expert on ESP, discusses clairvoyancy. Don't leave the regular matinee crowd to hold up the bottom on this new, needed format...