Word: phillip
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Screenwriter John Hunter makes the story of this latter-day Rip Van Winkle strangely touching; anyone struggling to adapt to the technologies of the 1980s is bound to admire his good-humored patience with the ways of the world he nev er made. Director Phillip Borsos has an unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean...
...Division of Applied Sciences recommended Associate Professor Phillip A. Bernstein for tenure, but President Bok overturned the proposal, a move which apparently cost the University an advanced computer system worth $200,000. Bok turns down 10 to 15 percent of all departmental tenure nominations a year...
...DIED. Phillip Burton, 56, eleven-term Democratic California Congressman whose skills at political dealmaking and infighting made him one of the most influential members of the House; of a ruptured aorta; in San Francisco. He called himself a "fighting liberal"; with the build, voice and vocabulary of a longshoreman from his San Francisco district, he fit the part. But he was pragmatic and persuasive in pursuing liberal goals, including higher minimum wages, mine safety, improved old age and disability benefits, and the creation of national parks. In 1976 he came within one vote of becoming majority leader, losing in part...
...Phillip Burton, Representative
...said it lost $80.3 million in 1982. The troubled exploration and drilling company, which is trying to restructure its bank debt, already has slashed its work force by two-thirds, from a high of 1,400, and is operating only seven of its 46 rigs. Says Executive Vice President Phillip Marcum: "You should be prepared for a minimum of two years of this. Three to five years would be better...