Word: sarafian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What sounds like sentimentalized, kindergarten Freud is molded by Director Richard C. Sarafian and a talented cast into an uninsistent and evocative parable of childhood's end. Sarafian-a former TV director-has an eye for the feeling and texture of inanimate as well as living things. When the colonel searches a birdwatcher's guide for an entry, the book assumes an identity of its own; notes are scribbled in the margin, the pages are dirty and soiled, odd cards and scraps of paper are stuck between pages to mark essential passages. The characters, down to the most...
Buyers are universally trading up to costlier and sportier cars (see MODERN LIVING) and shifting away from the compacts, which have leveled off at 32% of the market. Says Los Angeles Oldsmobile Salesman Ed Sarafian: "Nobody asks how many miles to the gallon any more." The buyers are also showing a price-swelling preference for such extras as air conditioning and adjustable steering wheels. "People want luxury cars, not basic transportation," says Chevrolet Chief Semon Knudsen, who recently reported that only three of Chevy's 6,800 dealers failed to make money last year. So far this year, more...