Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through its recording and Universal film subsidiaries, MCA Inc. has produced some of television's more violent programs (Baretta, Kojak), some very slick and successful flicks (The Sting and, above all, Jaws) and a stack of million-selling gold records, by Elton John and Olivia Newton-John among others. But entertainment alone has not satiated MCA's voracious appetite for acquisition. It also has pushed into computer services, retail gift stores, publishing (Putnam) and finance (Colorado's Columbia Savings and Loan). Last week MCA decided that all these things would go better with Coke. It offered...
Gonna take the sting from...
...Washington police and a team of prosecutors combined forces to instruct officers in such elementary matters as interviewing witnesses, verifying the accuracy of their information and advising them on what is expected of a witness in court. The report praises imaginative crime-control tactics like Washington's Operation Sting, in which phony fences were set up to receive stolen goods while officials secretly photographed and recorded the transactions to provide airtight evidence. Such operations, now being carried on in several cities, apparently work quite well. When Washington police took the trouble to produce tangible evidence and reliable witnesses, convictions...
...been background music. The reason is not simply that Paul Newman and Robert Redford make a lovely pair, cuddly though they are. It is a matter of social realities and society's perceptions. A male actor can fly a plane, fight a war, shoot a badman, pull off a sting, impersonate a big cheese in business or politics. Men are presumed to be interesting. A female can play a wife, play a whore, get pregnant, lose her baby, and, um, let's see ... Women are presumed to be dull...
...Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions is about to break out: Exorcist II, Jaws 2 and Sting II are either scheduled...