Word: skid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the $125,000 he made in the oil-drilling business. "It's not a Texas fortune-making story," he says. "In terms of the great Texas rich, I'm not there at all." But he has no regrets about his switch into agriculture, despite the temporary skid in income. "I thought it would be more fun," says Gow, "and eventually more profitable. I felt that if I was ever going to do something that would make a lot of money, I had to start again...
...Godard, confusing instead of intellectually surprising. Take for instance, the scene of David's train arrival. He steps onto a deserted platform and confronts a raucously singing spike-heeled floozy who throws open her fur coat to reveal a chintzy Miss America costume. Then four creatures who look like skid row relics show up with battered horns and even more battered music. Not only is it imitative of Fellini, but it is totally irrelevant...
...since Sonja Henie first skid ded across the Hollywood ice has there been such a movie debut. Skier and Promoter Jean-Claude Killy is now an aspiring actor. Looking like a cross between Dick Cavett and Peter Fonda, he bounds down the slopes with agility. But he racks up whenever he has to say lines - which, as luck would have it, is often. Waxing romantic or working out plans for an elaborate robbery, Jean-Claude always manages to sound as if he were making a half hearted pitch for Chap Stick...
...raise orison For Samuel E. and Theodore Mor(r)ision. Was sail in bowls and cups we'll carry To Stewart, Chalmers, Andrews, and Parry Pleasant hellos and pleasant looks For Liller, Smithies. Dunn, and Crooks In Mather House, we'll throw and party For Burriss Young and Skid von State Toast Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orloys Thomas Schelling and Henry Rosovsky We bring glad tidings from afar To Michael Walzer. Judith Shklar, Willard V. Quine and Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy...
...across the continent to a union career in California, and eventually drops him in Salt Lake City to be framed and executed. Because of Hill's own reluctance to discuss his past, Widerberg's imagination has free rein at the beginning. The New York sequence with its shots of skid row hits harder than anything else in the picture. Still, Widerberg feels compelled to add a romance nipped at the bud and a cute little street urchin who teaches Joe the city's lore. Joe leaves to search for his brother, takes up with a veteran hobo, and heads west...