Word: sellout
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...Paul Belmondo). What's more, it asks the moviegoer to spend 89 minutes sitting still for a jaggedly abstract piece of visual music that is often about as easy to watch as Schoenberg is to listen to. Then why, in the last year, has this picture done a sellout business all over France? Belmondo explains some of the excitement. A ferally magnetic young animal, he is now being called "the male Bardot." But more important than Belmondo are the film's heart-stopping energy and its eye-opening originality...
...deal: Ford wanted to buy complete control of its British subsidiary by paying about $20.50 per share for a stock that was selling in London for $12.88 per share. But as the stock price soared nearly $7 on the news last week, British tempers soared even higher. "Kill this sellout. Britain's economic independence is at stake," screamed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. Intoned the Daily Express: "The British Empire comes before the Ford empire." The Financial Times warned soberly that since British Vauxhall is already wholly owned by General Motors, the Ford move would put half...
Game time is 1 p.m. EDT. Television and radio coverage will be via NBC (WEZE radio and Channel 4 television). The weather for the Steel City was reported to be sunny and warm for the sellout crowd of 38,000 at Forbes Field...
...beat with a square; A Country Scandal, an early play of Anton Chekhov, produced professionally in the U.S. for the first time, providing ample and comic proof that minor Chekhov is equal to the major efforts of most others; and Little Mary Sunshine, off-Broadway's phenomenal, sellout musical that spoofs the candy-coated operettas...
...Chinese target, railed against "leftists" and "phrase-mongers" who "assemble and sometimes distort quotations to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only "fools and dogmatists" could say (as the Chinese have been saying) that Russian advocacy of peaceful coexistence was a sellout to capitalism. Peking's Vice Premier Li Fu-chun promptly retorted that China's Communists "are the real Marxist-Leninists." lashed out at "modern revisionists and those who echo them...