Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrangling over energy policy six months ago, President Ford and the Democratic leaders of Congress have known that at most they had only until Aug. 31 to reach agreement: if no new legislation is signed by then, price controls on domestically produced oil will expire and petroleum prices will shoot up faster than either side wants. Actually, the effective deadline was Aug. 1, since Congress regularly adjourns then for one month or more. Yet it was not until the end of last week, with a scant five days left for legislative action, that the outlines of a bill with...
Brooks' comic turns have recently found new outlets. He has started to shoot a series of short films to be aired this fall by NBC on a new late-night comedy program. Last month he completed a month's work acting in Taxi Driver, Director Martin Scorsese's upcoming feature starring Oscar Winner Robert DeNiro as a psychotic New York cabbie. Brooks portrays the campaign aide of a politician about whom DeNiro develops a homicidal fixation. Scorsese added three extra scenes to capitalize on Brooks' talents...
...Reksten's strategies was to spurn the security of long-term charters for some of his ships, preferring to shoot for higher gains on the mercurial spot market; indeed, he sometimes chartered tankers from other firms so that he could recharter them to shippers at spot rates. Between 1970 and 1973, when rates were generally rising, he chartered four huge tankers. Then came the Arab-Israeli war and Arab oil embargo, during which many tankers had to lie idle because there was no oil for them to move. The four tankers have been repossessed from Reksten for nonpayment...
...Nashville, they were in trouble. What do you do with 24 characters? Now Altman was making explicit his concern for making movies about communities rather than internal personal conflicts. And the California Split problem was solved. At last the let's-get-high-and-decide-what-we're-gonna-shoot-tomorrow theory of handling actors could operate the way it was supposed to, without eager stars killing each other off. Now they could follow their own instincts about a role, because, there was no intrinsically dramatic situation for them to get caught...
...Cubans into Cuba in the hope that they might assassinate Fidel Castro. As a contact in the Pentagon, Prouty was approached by the CIA to see that the plan worked smoothly. Said he: "I set it all up, made sure some [U.S.] fighter plane didn't shoot us down...