Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the House, and it seems destined to pass the Senate as well, either at the end of this session or early next year. Indeed, Senator Jacob Javits, 73, is preparing an amendment that would completely phase out mandatory retirement over a five-year period. This abrupt, stunning legislative success is the hallmark of another revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population, are 65 or over. Numbers alone give them political clout, because they...
...moving solution to this problem by using the title character's obsessive preoccupation with the possibility of his own demise (and his attempts to deny that preoccupation through a studied lack of affect) as a means of dulling the romantic impulse. Deerfield is a star racing driver whose success is based on a superrationality that requires a cutting off of all emotion. But then a car that is the twin of Deerfield's spins out of control, its driver is horribly hurt in the crash, and reason dictates that Bobby discover what happened in order to avoid...
...happened on the financial front this week. First, almost 300 alumni gathered last weekend under a tent at Eliot House, where they drank to their own success as fundraisers for the Harvard College Fund...
Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind the success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
...interpose themselves between the whaling ships and the whales, and stand there while explosive harpoons aimed at the whales whiz past their heads. They lecture the crews of the ships in Russian in an attempt to persuade them of the wrongfulness of their acts. But with little success: in one case a captain ordered the crew to drag through the ice-cold water an ecologist who had grabbed onto the cable the whaler was using to haul a whale up to the boat. "Voyages" was filmed along the Northern California coast and on the North Pacific. Last Days...