Word: redeemability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redeem itself further, the movie implements Frank Loesser's score with inventive arrangements by Nelson Riddle, and augments the chorus with a bevy of twittering birds who assure the executives that A Secretary Is Not a Toy. Equally good is the staff of ulcerated businessmen who inch their way along the top of the company as they pinch their way around the bottoms of their secretaries. Comically caught in the act, unfaithfully married and unhappily harried, they are reminders that How to Succeed was good show business because the structure of its satire rested, however slightly, upon a grain...
...statement in "To Redeem the Worst, to Better the Best" [Feb. 17] that a firearms-control act "would be one of the cheapest, yet probably one of the most effective crime-fighting tools" is without logic...
...post-Viet Nam years, when there will be more room in the budget for the new social-welfare measures that he longs to add to those already under the umbrella of the Great Society. Meanwhile, in both its youth and its crime programs, the Johnson Administration aims to redeem the worst and to better the best...
...needed funds -until last week, when in the nick of time the remainder came from the most unexpected pockets. U.S. Book Publisher George Braziller, who has published fine art reproductions, got Eugene B. Power, founder of University Microfilms, a subsidiary of Xerox Corp., to give $200,000 to redeem the rare edition for the Cambridge scholars...
...does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself has no redeem ing artistic merit. The film is devoid of theme, plot or character development...