Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently this curious comment meant simply that the Shah wanted to keep out of public view while he attempted to end Iran's political crisis by putting together a civilian government to replace the two-month-old military regime. This was no small task, since most opposition leaders were calling for his ouster...
...Public employees. Pacts covering 400,000 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees must be concluded by April or May in order to give politicians time to work the figures into budgets, even though most contracts do not expire until June 30. This moderate union might actually be helped by the 7% guideline since, in an atmosphere of fiscal conservatism and budget cuts, it is unlikely to have got much more. Now, it will have an argument against settling for less...
...movement of Brahms' fourth symphony, and viewers got the royal treatment. In the string section of the orchestra was Prince Hiro, 18, eldest son of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. The prince, a freshman, has chosen to follow in his father's footsteps and attend a public university. And like both his parents, with whom he plays in a trio at the palace (his father is an accomplished cellist and his mother plays the piano and harp), Hiro is devoted to music. When he joined the Gakushuin orchestra, he put aside the violin he had played since...
...Divining public tastes makes moviemaking a very high-risk enterprise. Still, film folk have a set of "rules." One of them is that TV actors cannot succeed in movies. John Travolta has apparently smashed that rule to jam. "The thing always was that people wouldn't pay $4 to see what they could see on television," says Agent Michael Black. "It's not true any more." Another rule still seems intact, though: today's audiences will not step into a theater simply to see a star. Dustin Hoffman did not pull them into Straight Time, Henry Winkler...
...gold and jewelry. Nowadays they skip all that and rifle the corpse's pockets for letters, laundry slips, and just about anything else that will help sell the poor man's story to the movies, TV and even Broadway. Biographies, long the mainstay of the reading public, have become the hottest items in show business. Hardly has a celebrity finished his life-and often only half his life-than some producer is looking for writers and actors to do an instant replay...