Word: sure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facile author thinks it would be fun to put a coven of witches in the Dakota (a fortress-like New York apartment house), writes a best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...
That summer the hip people felt no loyalty to one another, and shared no eagerness in a common interest--the kind of feelings that make a viable community. Most people were sure the head shop would go under and Avatar would fold after the next issue...
...tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough sing...
Ahmanson interests seem sure to grow inexorably broader-and taller. Next month, on a 3.9-acre Wilshire Boulevard site, work will start on a Home-financed, Edward Durell Stone-designed office-building complex featuring a 40-story tower. Scheduled for completion in 1970 at a cost of $75 million, the project is called, naturally enough, Ahmanson Center...
Dark ax the Grave is the story of a Dantean pilgrimage into the inferno of the past with Lowry transparently disguised as Sigbjorn Wilderness, a hard-drinking and "monumentally unsuccessful" novelist. A man given to "making up his life as he goes along," Wilderness is not sure whether his journey is in search of salvation or some ultimate bonfire of damnation...