Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salisbury, the talks lasted four hours, with Smith questioning Owen and Young closely on the security provisions. Afterward, Smith told reporters ambiguously, "There were some pleasant and some unpleasant surprises." He also noted that the plan contained some "crazy suggestions," but did not reject it out of hand. Leaving Salisbury, Owen admitted that he was "not full of optimism...
...inflation that is upsetting the American way of housing and pricing many people out of the market. Those who are still in it find that they have to pay more money than they had ever thought they would, and then go up to their eaves in debt. In some pleasant but by no means luxurious residential areas of the Northeast, Midwest and West, even $50,000 to $60,000 houses are almost nonexistent, while dwellings of $75,000 to $85,000?and up?are standard. The prices for new houses in June averaged $62,100 around Chicago...
...scenes as tightly as he might, and Writer Norton sketches scenes that could have been more fully developed comically and emotionally. They don't attempt to do for Austin, Texas - center of so-called outlaw country music - what Robert Altman did for Nashville. Still, Outlaw Blues is a pleasant, modest entertainment, which, like several other recent films, demonstrates that the only cops we can still afford to kid in the grand old American tradition are small town and rural. There is just nothing funny any more about law enforcement in big cities...
...short, what we have here is a little miracle of perseverance, all the more effective for the good-humored manner in which the story is presented. Beau Bridges does a pleasant turn as a white driver who becomes Scott's friend and, later, mechanic. Pam Grier, up out of the unlamented blaxploitation pictures of a few years back, is patient and supportive as Scott's long-suffering wife. Director Schultz, as he demonstrated in last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone...
...hours between his Fifth Avenue apartment and a modern, eleven-room cypress-and-glass house on his mother's 300-acre estate in suburban Stamford, Conn. Both residences are furnished in what one disapproving family member calls "Howard Johnson decorator stuff." Another upgrades it to "Bloomingdale's pleasant." Sulzberger drinks vodka on the rocks and eats hamburgers at his favorite restaurant, Manhattan's 21 Club (at $9.25 a burger). He prefers to entertain at home, however, barbecuing steaks for Stamford visitors (mostly relatives and Times colleagues) and working wonders with vegetables. "I can't wait...