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Passenger-traffic growth was anemic for the year even before the gulf crisis erupted. Domestic passenger miles have increased only 2.7% this year, while the foreign business of American carriers has grown 17%. But the airlines are watching a relatively slow year turn into a disaster. The financial outlook: "Stinko," declares Robert Crandall, chief of American Airlines, one of the healthiest carriers. Michael Durham, the airline's chief financial officer, blames the fuel jolt as the No. 1 problem. "There's very little you can do when a commodity that represents 15% to 20% of your total operating costs goes...
Bill thought he could find some kind of work in the Orlando area, but jobs were tight in the tourist belt, and as he soon found, "salaries are stinko in central Florida." When he did get a job as a shop foreman for an engineering firm, he earned only $7,800. Roxie took to selling Tupperware and cut back expenses, but she could send the credit companies only token monthly payments...
...those cases where we get to shoot off the same day that the big boys do, so shoot their perceptions--but really, this doesn't look like much more than a bad movie with one wonderful centerpiece. The first main problem is that Thomas McGuane's celebrated writing is stinko. You can see almost every line spoken on the written page as soon as it's said; it doesn't look so good there either. The speeches are bloated, the cowboy banter is self-conscious, the themes muddy. Next big trouble comes when you begin to feel that the film...
...Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, P. (American film director) is on his professional premature death bed. No one need ask who done it; he done it himself. His latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden dirigible dragged some very talented people down with it, including Cole Porter, a hard man to sink. When a friend of mine stole the script from Twentieth Century Fox and lent it to me, the two of us sat rocking on chairs for the better part of an afternoon rubbing...
...cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet...