Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endowed Venezuela at midyear trebled its national budget, to almost $10 billion, to take account of rising revenues. The Venezuelans are expanding their state-owned steel industry in the Orinoco backlands, paying to educate thousands of future leaders at U.S. universities and gaining great influence among Central American republics by promising them loans. Says Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Pérez: "This is our opportunity to create a new international economic order...
...What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor's madness and is soon trying to reproduce the experiments. He is aided by a shapely but vacant assistant called Inga (Teri Garr) and by the stainless-steel housekeeper Frau Blucher, played by Cloris Leachman, who does a skillful and witty parody on the Judith Anderson role in Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...down in real terms for the first time in years. Most forecasts agree that the biggest spenders in 1975 will be coal, copper and other mining companies, which plan to increase their capital outlays by a dramatic 40%, to $4 billion, the petroleum industry (up 35%) and iron and steel firms...
...with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous by farcical staging, and the whole cast takes turns shamelessly mugging in asides to the audience. As the faded beau, Donald Sinden transparently masks an egoist's will of steel with extravagant slapstick. He is matched by the Grace of Polly Adams, who makes what could have been a most tiresome ingenue into a bright and funny human being. ∙Gina Mallet
...less damaged of the two Alfas. Although he was hooded, D'Angerio could tell that they were going too fast, and he yelled at them to slow down. They refused and, unable to spot a curve because of the fog, the driver smashed the car into a steel guard rail. Both kidnapers and kidnaped staggered out. Although one gunman pointed a pistol at D'Angerio and demanded that he follow along, the prince trotted the other way. With a thoroughly modern sense of noblesse oblige, he told newsmen later, "I uttered a rude word in Neapolitan and made...