Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremony was a nostalgic but bitter occasion for the 3,500 American canal workers in the zone. The Zonians, as they are called, were witnessing the end of their cherished home away from home, a small piece of America transplanted to a well-tended tropical setting beside the beloved waterway. Anti-American propaganda held that the Zonians had reveled in colonial splendor amid the surrounding squalor of Panama. In truth, their homes were modest by U.S. standards and their incomes only adequate. Said one longtime Zonian, on his way for a last rum punch at the historic Spanish colonial-style...
Faith has provided the motive force for mankind's checkered odyssey. But how does one dream in a technocratic age? How do a people regain the faith that caused small peasant societies to build cathedrals with spires reaching toward the heavens, edifices that it would take centuries to complete, enshrining in stone a testimonial to the perseverance and sweep of their aspirations...
...rating is well deserved, and nothing will do but that he discover her name, trace her whereabouts and follow her to Acapulco. The obsession, of course, puts him in the way of the small, slightly irrelevant misadventures Edwards so hilariously develops, and had he stuck to straightforward farce, the writer-director might well have made a comedy of surpassing quality...
...that these days the angels are on more than one side, and Edwards wants to stand with them everywhere. This is particularly hard on Andrews, who is Mrs. Edwards, and is here called upon mostly to be long-suffering, which she does with her customary cheery professionalism, but with small chance of large rewards. Most of the good material is left to Moore, who is a gifted farceur and very brave about soldiering through the editorials. He is not a forceful comedian, but he is opportunistic, intelligent and, occasionally, touchingly vulnerable. This film could provide him the chance, finally...
...bring about significant changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment got badly hurt. Small investors in gold also must pay a sales commission of 6% to 10% when buying the metal from banks, brokers or jewelers. In addition, there is often an equal-sized charge when reselling...