Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of Eric Crone, Rod Foster, Jimmy Stoeckel, and Milt Holt to choose from, Restic has a Mike Lynch, a Jim Kubacki, a Steve O'Brien, and a slew of others competing for the starting...
...Burt Lancaster's best performances about a military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in its implications. Rod Serling wrote the script based on the novel by Knebel Bailey. I think the real credit goes to Bailey; Serling just knows a good thing when he sees it and only occasionally when he writes it. Ch. 56, 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours. Black and white...
Chronological time rules the work economy, its very rhythms and motions. The prophet of modern work was Frederick W. Taylor, and the stop watch was his rod. If any social upheaval can ever be attributed to one man, the logic of efficiency as a mode of life is due to Taylor. With "scientific management," as formulated by Taylor in 1895, we pass far beyond the old, rough computations of the division of labor and more into the division of time itself...
...Rod Kaufmann...
...Queen of England is miffed at this movie. Her Majesty appears in a pivotal supporting role, opening Parliament, while an Irishman named Hennessy (Rod Steiger) is on the premises, about to blow the whole place skyward. The Queen's appearance is constructed entirely out of newsreel footage of the actual event, which the cagey film makers have intercut with their elaborate fictions. This has been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing...