Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Marlowe. (1970) James Garner as Raymond Chandler's famed private eye in a missing-persons case involving an ice-pick murderer. CH.7. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. In Concert. ABC--WBCN simulcast series features the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Green, Taj Mahal, Dr. Hook, and Eric Weissberg. CH.5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Long Goodbye if you have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director Robert Altman has thrown out three-quarters of Chandler's plot, as well as detective Philip Marlowe's hard-boiled mystique--his pithy talk and polish, and his Sir Galahad morality. Altman's film is basically a wallow in the atmosphere of Los Angeles today. Altman's virtues are a good eye and some talent with actors, as well as a healthy distaste for the Hollywood culture which surrounds him. But his flaws are fatal: he doesn't know what makes a plot hold...
Over the past year, AIM supporters have gone into a number of communities in South Dakota and Nebraska, seeking to investigate charges of discrimination against Indians. In early 1972, AIM forced an investigation into the seemingly casual killing in Gordon, Neb., of a 51-year-old Sioux, Raymond Yellow Thunder, by a group of whites. (The whites are now out on bond.) Negotiating in several other communities, AIM won some promises of improved conditions and at least the beginning of a dialogue with usually unfriendly whites. On the other hand, a month ago, in Custer...
...Says Raymond Vernon, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs: "The U.S. thinks of itself as if the wily Europeans have somehow got the better of us, as though we've had too much of the burden and cost and been weakened. There's a sense of being put upon. Many European leaders, however, see us as a country of overriding strength...
...capacity in 1970. Not so long ago, many governments would have reduced demand by such traditional deflationary methods as curbing their own spending, raising the cost of credit and restricting its growth. Today they are fearful of using those weapons vigorously, lest they create unemployment. Says Raymond Barre, a former vice president of the Common Market Commission: "Most people have decided they prefer inflation to joblessness...