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ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet...
That spine tingler of a script is, with a certain amount of cinematic license, akin to sweet reality at the 55-acre Hollywood studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. A year ago, the company that distributed one of the first Hollywood feature-length movies (The Squaw Man, 1914) was close to the ropes, its revenues sagging and its film larder practically bare. Today, in the words of Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Guardian Research, a Los Angeles investment-management firm, "they're having the greatest year of any company in the recent history...
...were unaware of these encroachments, the country would be in a great deal of danger. But we recognize what is happening, which may be why beneath the village of common thought lie disagreements on practically everything. We are beginning to resist our manipulators. That is the secret. In the sweet and deadly mass marketing of thought, we are quietly reclaiming our individual lives...
People spend a lot of time in the store looking around at all the varieties of candies and products, he said. "Everyone has a sweet-tooth, and health conscious people can choose granola or dried fruit, or even the dietetic candy that we offer...
...Germany and all over the U.S., settling for a time in Tacoma, where he went to high school. His father could handle a little guitar ("Three chords and a few blues licks," his son says. "Nothing to be scared of") and played lots of gospel tapes at home. The sweet, lofting sounds of the Five Blind Boys and the Dixie Hummingbirds complemented services every Sunday at the local Baptist church. Even so, Cray considered becoming an architect -- a desire that survived only three courses in mechanical drawing and one encounter with an old Muddy Waters record. Enter the blues...