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...film. His abilities of synthesis are limited to an intellectual spectrum that, for all its wit and sometime fierceness, verges on the academic; its hard not to feel that this comes from a refusal to confront reality head-on. Though he does branch out now and then into slightly racier stuff (his festival reports and film journalism are nice and punchy), only the timeless qualities of a work's form and logic, and eternal themes of Life and Love, come to him easily. He's critic who begs the question of relevance, and he doesn't seem apt to change...
That problem lately has been aggravated for several reasons. First, the airlines are prisoners of modern technology and old-fashioned competition. Whenever a manufacturer produces a bigger or racier plane, the chiefs of some leading airlines figure that they must have it, and then all other lines feel obliged to follow. The debut last year of the 356-passenger 747 jumbo jet left the lines with many more seats than they could fill. The lines added so many 747s in the last year that the number of seats on North Atlantic flights soared by 18%, to as many...
...George) William Miller, 43, heads Textron Inc., the oldest and one of the soundest conglomerates, and he is an articulate critic of racier companies. Textron, which started the conglomerate trend nearly two decades ago, has acquired the kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last...
...Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered one of the country's top movie critics, Miss Kael still feels ill at ease in the East and lacks rapport with fellow intellectuals in Manhattan. Not that she always makes things easy for them. She is even racier in her talk than in her writing, and does not hesitate to correct someone's erroneous ideas about a movie. A chain-smoker, she exhibits that edge of insecurity of the almost emancipated woman. About the only publication she refuses to write for is Playboy, because of its condescending view...
Dean Watson's idea of a hot time may be hitting the dance floor with an M.I.T. Young Democrat, but the swingers in Quincy House have been known to go for slightly racier fare...