Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the AFL-CIO affiliated union, who work as lithographers, pressmen and cold type compositors at the Harvard University Printing Office, will negotiate for the two-year contract next month. Their present contract expires November...
...contrast between the on-location San Francisco exteriors, where the rest of the film unfolds, and the period sets for the Victorian England scenes, captures nicely the disparate tone of the two eras: the sheltered, made-to-order past versus the open, anything-goes present. Meyer makes good use of the city, staging a riveting chase over San Francisco's split-level belvederes and sky-ways. Not that Wells spends all his time chasing Stevenson. Romance blooms in the person of Amy, an aggressive bank-executive who takes him to lunch, to the movies, and to her apartment, where Wells...
...Time After Time's lack of social satire. Eschewing any real criticism of contemporary values, Meyer takes only an occasional jab, as when Amy takes Wells to Exorcist IV. Nor does Time After Time make any deep comment about the development of society, beyond the obvious one that the present's no paradise. "Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur," Stevenson says, treating Wells to a typical TV smorgasbord of news reports, war movies, and sadistic cartoons. Early on, Meyer sets up two conflicting theories of man's capacity for progress--Stevenson's conviction that...
...jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated to the U.S., where she wrote, lectured and ran several chicken farms. In 1939 she founded the Tolstoy Foundation in Valley Cottage to aid and absorb refugees from Soviet bloc countries and, she said, "to interpret to the Western world the present-day tragedy of the Russian people...
Nixon flashed back: "If the other side stays on this track and doesn't go downhill tomorrow, what you have done today is the best birthday present I have had in 60 years...