Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis...
Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...
...student celebration should have been approached from the perspective of being open to everyone," says Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the council's social committee, which last year planned such events as the Battle of the Bands, the Yale Tailgate Party, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race...
...dramatic shoot-out at Black Rock brought an extraordinary denouement to one of the most convoluted, agonizing and, above all, public corporate power struggles in recent U.S. history. Wyman's departure was the climax of months of upheaval at CBS, caused in part by his efforts to elude a raft of corporate-takeover artists, ranging from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms to Manhattan Arbitrager Ivan Boesky to Atlanta Broadcaster Ted Turner. The battle was also triggered by austerity and shrinking fortunes in the broadcast- television business, as No. 2 network CBS has struggled -- so far unsuccessfully -- to cope with losing...
...work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been made cheaply in standing sets and on the Burbank lot with Warner contract players, and by that time had already been tipped as a 'sleeper' . . . I had not expected to enjoy myself --Background to Danger with George Raft had made me very queasy--but I had not expected a screen Dimitrios to give me stomach cramps. They were quite severe." At the close, he imagines an ideal novelist-turned-screenwriter. After he completes his assignment, says Ambler, he has a sense "of anti- climax, a feeling of irritation because...