Word: shared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fugitive is hiding there, and not in one of the houses next door, thus giving him time to escape. His Aunt Liberty avenges her husband and brother to prevent her 16 year old son from doing so, and so dies in his place. His uncle too, is willing to share food, that most precious of commodities, with a dying girl, so weak that poppies bruise her skin...
Individual shots are often quite striking, although they have their share of phony backdrops and obvious bits of processing. But nothing really propels the images into each other. It's not the editor's-fault; Badham just never bothered to devise a cutting style, so special effects pop out at you mechanically, unsurprisingly, without the right build-up, like creaky hobgoblins in a decomposing funhouse. And because his close-ups are so brief and his cutting so nervous, we're never close to any character for long enough to build up any identification. The movie is thoroughly uninvolving...
...Boeing and General Dynamics, the flyoffs payoff is huge. Each ALCM is estimated to cost only $1 million (vs. $5.8 million for a submarine's Trident I ICBM). However, the Pentagon plans to order 3,000, making the prime contractor's share about $2 billion. By early next year, the contest results are to be announced and the first ALCM-armed B-52 could enter the bomber fleet by December...
...formal program is obviously valuable. But like women at their first consciousness-raising session, the mayors are utterly delighted to find other people who share, and above all, understand their problems. As they chat they soon find themselves finishing each other's sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich of Harrisburg, who looks a bit like bug-eyed Comedian Rodney ("I don't get no respect") Dangerfield, learned about the disastrous doings at nearby Three Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster...
...closed at $33 a share on the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday, up from $18 a share in March...