Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting Prime Minister encounters tension and tough talk over trade
Harvard and Monsanto are aiming at a tough scientific target, but Hanley figures that it is equally significant that they are demonstrating a means for working together to increase the effectiveness of the research under way in U.S. universities. Compared with cash-short colleges, companies have far larger resources to invest in basic research, and they are much more expert in managing that research, directing it to the market and recruiting scientists. "The transferral of technology from the university to the marketplace is a very flawed mechanism in this country," says Hanley. "It doesn't work worth a damn...
...wonder, then, that the Cannes Festival is a perfect subject for Director Michael Ritchie, a satirist who has previously assaulted such institutions as competitive sports (Downhill Racer), beauty pageants (Smile), political campaigns (The Candidate) and est (Semi-Tough). For his new film, An Almost Perfect Affair, Ritchie went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams...
...American Game breaks the news that ghetto blacks are poorer than middle-class whites. We also learn that basketball teams play to win, that coaches can be tough taskmasters, that pretty girls and college recruiters fawn over the best players. If these tedious observations were served up in an interesting way, the movie might at least offer some entertainment. No dice. The American Game is a survey of film-making clichés. There are soupy graphics, split-screen effects, a platitudinous narration. The editing is so splintered that even the few potentially good scenes, those set at the heroes...
...down long be fore our time." Humans are not frail organisms coveted by every death-dealing microbe in the world, as so much pop medicine would have it. Quite the contrary: "We are in real life, a reasonably healthy people. Far from being ineptly put together, we are amazingly tough, durable organisms, full of health, ready for most contingencies...