Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUPERB actor debase himself in search of that seven figure income no longer shocks me--the sight of Sir Laurence Olivier pounding away at a French maid in The Betsy destroyed any illusions I might have entertained about artistic integrity. But the opposite situation--watching a former TV sit-com starlet metamorphose into a first-rate actress--amazed me. Expecting "Gidget Goes to Harlan County," I was surprised, impressed and moved by Sally (Flying Nun) Field's performance in Martin Ritt's new film, Norma Rae. She delivers a powerful shaded performance as Southern woman who slowly learns to value...
...cars of the future will be. There just isn't anyone around who can compete effectively. Between them they will divide up two-thirds of the world market and leave the remaining third for the rest." In the meantime, ready or not, the auto-buying public can sit back and enjoy one of the most tumultuous periods of change since the car replaced the horse...
...takeover attempts and vexing shareholder suits, the corporate board room is no longer the snug, overstuffed haven it used to be. Still, a directorship remains a sure sign of having made it in the business world. Few women have broken through the well-guarded boardroom door: only 276 women sit on boards of the nation's biggest 1,300 corporations. They tend to be concentrated in packaged-goods and other consumer-related companies...
...summertime, Cafe Florian moves outside to the sidewalk, so you can sit back and watch the passers-by once the weather warms...
...best around, but when every piece is accompanied by the same movements and played too loud to let the lyrics come through, something gets lost in the translation. If you really want to hear the lyrics--or as few of them as the chorus enunciates--don't sit in the balcony. Most of the voices are too weak to carry. Like Borowitz, the director and choreographer work on the if-it-works-once-do-it-again-and-again principle and No Net gets boring. Some of the jokes are funny--"When I walk into a suburban kitchen," says the villainess...