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This Fred Weissman-style documentary with its grainy images, cluttered sound, and footage "wasted" on such things as doors being opened and shut, is peculiarly fit to study a madhouse. It is certainly more so than a plush feature like One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest...
...mother talking. The arias of gentility in Williams' plays, whether they be those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before some of his poorer works...
...that almost no one showed up. Post's original notion, an opulent, members-only resort, captured the imagination of the international set. The rich, the royal and the celebrated attended the extravagant grand opening in 1969. "No country club in the world is so deliberately elite, so tastefully plush," bubbled Town & Country magazine in its February 1971 issue. But the initial fee of $8,000 and annual dues of $360 dampened the ardor of many prospective applicants; only 700 signed up. Nonetheless, Post would not abandon his ideal of exclusivity. In 1970, even nonmember Lyndon Johnson was forced...
Defeated, Clague last month moved out of his plush offices at the 24-story Hutchison House on Hong Kong's waterfront. His bank-picked successor is Conglomerate Rescue Artist William Wyllie; a four-man caretaker team, in consultation with Wyllie, has moved to sell off some of Hutchison's holdings. To raise $5 million, they peddled an 18% interest in a British investment firm. Company insiders expect that a commercial helicopter subsidiary may be sold off or folded, while management control of a merchant banking affiliate will be divested. Hutchison has also been selling off shares of other...
...saying it's right, but it's a way of doing business," Daniel J. Haughton, chairman of the board of the Lockheed Corporation, leaned back in the plush chambers of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, glaring at the television lights and the whispering reporters. This was Haughton's second appearance before a Congressional firing line: in late August, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) chaired the Senate Banking Committee's inquiry into Lockheed's business practices and financial status. Barely three weeks later, the Multinationals Sub-committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), questioned Haughton...