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Sometime later, the seeds of his alternative concept were sown when he saw a production of Peter Ustinov's Photo Finish in which the main character confronts himself as separate characters. It too failed, but in the dramatic structure Ustinov employed, Hunter saw great potential...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: The Hemingway Playwright | 8/1/1975 | See Source »

...transitional hiatus in her career. "I'm too old to play little whores and teen-age rape victims," she says. The trouble is, Carrie knows that women's roles in Hollywood are still stereotyped and their range is sadly limited. "Women," she says, "no longer just get sown while men do all the sowing." Carrie's acidulous commentaries make social life difficult. "It's hard to get turned on by a man the same age. Boys always used to be intimidated because I could use the word ostensibly." Beatty, however, has chosen Carrie to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Not Exactly Like Mom | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...face," he recalls. "What did this have to do with the problems of Indian development?" He picked up Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and found many of his vague concerns about traditional economics and its deficiencies clearly stated. The seeds of discontent were sown. All he needed was hope for something...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Radicalization of Stephen Marglin | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...inflation, which now stands at 8%, v. 14.4% only four months ago. The main worry is that if the recovery fails to reduce the disastrous unemployment rate, now at 8.7%, Congress will institute new spending programs, which in turn would fuel a resumption of inflation. "We have literally sown the seed for the upturn," says Murray Weidenbaum, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Let's not flood it with more federal spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECESSION: Slumping More Slowly | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...couldn't go into the woods any more because they had been sown with anti-personnel bombs--some hadn't yet exploded. Sometimes in animal would kick one and it would go off. Consequently you could only come and go along a single path. If you left the path just a little ways there was a good chance of your stepping on an anti-personnel bomb...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Manufacturing Death | 2/8/1975 | See Source »

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