Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever happens to it, the Germans' approach is another evidence of the craving of foreign capital for a haven in the safe, solid U.S. Deutsche Bank viewed the W.T.C. as a sound investment in prime U.S. urban real estate, a market in which it already has some experience. During the past two years, with other German banks, Deutsche Bank has bought Pennzoil Place and Shell Oil Tower in Houston...
Though many of Silverman's interim shows sound tired (a two-part Rescue from Gilligan's Island), they may fare better than the lameduck series that they will preempt. Among them are such rock-bottom offerings as Sword of Justice (Sept. 10, 8 p.m. E.D.T.), a contemporary rehash of Zorro, and The Eddie Capra Mysteries (Sept. 8, 9 p.m.), yet another rip-off of Perry Mason. Though Grandpa Goes to Washington (Sept. 7, 9 p.m.) has Jack Albertson playing a U.S. Senator, it seems as old-hat as The Farmer's Daughter. NBC's principal...
Still, some things never change, including all three networks' conviction that audiences like characters whose names begin with a hard k sound. While Kojak and Columbo have retired to reruns, their places will be filled this fall by such heroes as Kaz, Eddie Capra, Jack Cole (Sword of Justice), Joe Casey (Waverly Wonders), Joe Kelley (Grandpa) and even Professor Charles Kingsfield Jr. (Paper Chase). It's enough to drive a viewer krazy...
...gained formidable international reputations in a relatively brief time. Marriner, conductor of London's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra, has "charm and wit and intellect," says one London observer. His 200 recordings, many of Baroque music, have pleasingly brisk tempi and a gay, intimate sound. As music director, Marriner will bring his favorite Haydn and Mozart to Minnesota; his weakness may well be that specialized repertoire. But, says he, "if you want to have any impact as musical director, then you must take along the repertoire for which you were hired...
...Game dared to dissect contemporary France; A Slave of Love is essentially a safe nostalgia piece. Where Renoir merged theme, style and narrative into a seamless whole, Mikhalkov must shift gears as his film moves among its various concerns. A Slave of Love is further afflicted by a dippy sound-track score, but such flaws are a real part of this picture's appeal. Somehow it is reassuring to know that the West does not have a monopoly on bourgeois film making, dippiness...