Word: projects
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...pictures. Assault on Precinct 13 is the most solidly worked out and the most satisfying. Ignored as an exploitation film upon its initial release in 1976, it is Carpenter's second feature (his first was a science-fiction spoof expanded from a film school project, called Dark Star.) The basic situation and central characters, actors' mannerisms and shards of dialogue are derived from Rio Bravo, a late Howard Hawks film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult...
Graham said the problem has existed "for years," but officials were especially concerned now because the city plans to construct a new playground--the Riverside Press Project--this summer on Memorial Drive...
Correspondent Strobe Talbott's analysis that "the basic trouble seems to be that Jimmy Carter ... is still unable to project a sense that he is in control of events" indicates that Mr. Talbott has accepted the essential error of the present Administration: image rather than reality is all important. The truth is that Mr. Carter is not in control of events...
...that surrounds most new models in Detroit, GM added to the hype by allowing plenty of tantalizing pre-introductory glimpses of these autos. Almost everything in them, from axles to windshields, has been redesigned to save weight and spare gas, and the company has poured $2.5 billion into the project so far. The stubby X car will replace four of GM's existing compact models; it will be sold by four GM divisions, each of which will give it a slightly different body, as well as a different name. Chevrolet's model will be called the Citation...
...film version of Hair is proof that real miracles can happen in show business. If ever a project looked doomed, it was this one. Hair's source, the 1968 Broadway hit, was a largely plotless, if tuneful, show that homogenized the '60s for theater audiences; even at the time, it was dated. The movie's creators -Czech-born Director Milos Forman, Playwright Michael Weller, Choreographer Twyla Tharp-have never previously negotiated the perilous tides of movie musicals. Add a largely unproven cast and a grand budget, and you can see just how hairy an undertaking this movie...