Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into supermarkets and drugstores. In his first quarter as president, ended last June, Burlington posted profits of $27.5 million, about 20% above the same period last year. But the success has brought little harmony in the executive suite; with in a single week this summer, two executive vice presidents, Raymond E. Kassar and George L. Staff, abruptly resigned. Some 20 lesser executives have left or been dismissed in recent weeks...
Nixon secluded himself in Aspen Cabin, his favorite, rustic four-bedroom retreat, and summoned five aides: St. Clair, Haig, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Speechwriters Raymond Price and Patrick Buchanan. Arriving in the afternoon, they worked on the release of the confessional transcripts. Assembled in Laurel, the camp's main dining lodge, the distraught aides were diverted by larger worries. St. Clair and Buchanan saw the President's position as doomed and suggested that he must consider resigning. Haig and Ziegler shuttled between the two buildings, expressing these concerns. "I wish you hadn't said that," Nixon...
...Sleep, playing this week at the Brattle, is one of the most confusing detective movies you'd ever hope to see. Humphrey Bogart stars as Philip Marlow, the ubiquitous private eye created by novelist Raymond Chandler and recreated by many an actor--though none so well as Bogart himself. Howard Hawks made this film in 1946, Betty Bacall and Dorothy Malone costar. William Faulkner took Chandler's novel, cleaned it up a bit and made its story even more obscure, and turned it into a screenplay. The L.A. shots are pretty good...
...Long Goodbye is another Raymond Chandler-Philip Marlow thriller that was turned into a movie, this one starring Elliot Gould and Nina van Pallandt. The movie is a cross between a straight detective movie and a spoof on the genre, and suffers because of the confusion. When it was first released it flopped, only later to gain popularity as a parody. At times it's rather funny, and the story isn't all that bad. Gould is excellent and his car is magnificent. The film, directed by Robert Altman, comes to the Welles on Sunday...
...RAYMOND...