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Altman is something of a maverick among Hollywood directors. Since his first widespread recognition with M*A*S*H, he has found himself too often making movies which threaten to have to wait ten or twenty years for recognition because of ineffectual studio backing. When I talked to him earlier this week he was at his office at "Lionsgate Productions," a studio he started simply "to make my own films, in my own little studio." He is determined "to keep away from the atmosphere of studios and keep the people I work with away from them. Because all that stuff...
Since a lot of the non-musical, non-Shakespearian parts of the show have mediocrity built into them, even intermittent lapses into flat blues notes or beats that don't flow or dances that don't seem to matter threaten to do serious damage to the show. But it's a good enough show so its faults aren't disastrous. In fact, by the time everything comes together, somewhere around "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," the show is bordering on high comedy. And I guess maybe a case could be made for occasional tediousness as authenticity: "a very excellent piece...
...Debate. Recognizing these economic realities, the Saudis are striving to persuade the other members of OPEC (which includes several non-Arab states) to cut prices to a more reasonable level. They may fear that sky-high oil prices threaten the stability of the industrialized nations, where much of their petro-wealth is stored. Another reason: price cuts might prolong world dependence on oil by discouraging large-scale efforts to develop alternate sources of energy, such as the U.S. Project Independence. (One proposal being circulated in Washington, and presumably noticed by the Saudis, envisages spending as much as $98 billion over...
...Europe takes a [separate] position in the Middle East?" Europeans argue that any conference with the Arab nations on the oil crisis is most unlikely to upset Kissinger's peace negotiations. Besides, the conference is tentative at best and far in the future. So how, then, could it threaten to unravel Kissinger's foreign policy...
...Coach. Motorola will rid itself of a division that had piled up losses in the past five years-partly because of Japanese competition. Those losses had begun to threaten the profits of Motorola's billion-dollar-a-year business in semiconductors and radio and auto communications equipment. Wishing to concentrate on those products, Motorola began sniffing around for possible buyers for the TV business early this year...