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...February Esquire Richard Reeves argues that the people who make California prosper are exporters of ideas. "They export ideas of a sort, ideas with a California twist, or twisted California ideas--drinking vodka, est, credit cards, student revolts, political consultants, skateboards. . ." California hot tubbing is that California idea, right down to its redwood heart. If Americans are the new Romans, then we may be taking our new Roman baths in redwood tubs from California. And why not? Today, Santa Barbara, tomorrow--the world...
...formerly U.A.'s vice president of operations. Among other assets, they inherit a fat list of 26 movies planned for release in 1978, including Hair, Apocalypse Now, Lord of the Rings and Woody Allen's first film since Annie Hall. Beckett insists that U.A. will continue to prosper, pointing out that it still has "one of the best distribution systems in the world." Krim and Benjamin, who resigned from Transamerica's board last week and will not sell their Transamerica stock, may see an advantage there. "They are now in a position to go into the production...
...tente is no reason for the espionage establishments of the world to change business habits that antedate the recent unpleasantness between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. What has dropped off since the cold war cooled down is public interest in these matters. To be sure, James Bond continues to prosper on the movie screen, but only by becoming more outrageously campy each time out. His antagonists have become totally apolitical, more and more like those master criminals whose antecedents are to be found in turn-of-the-century pulp fiction. But the rest- as far as movies are concerned...
...once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
Moscow. "Orthodoxy has found a new and permanent home" in America, said Theodosius?in English?at his installation last week, but it must overcome ethnic barriers and form a united church if it is to survive and prosper here...