Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GLASS BOOTH. Donald Pleasence displays furious intensity in his attack on the role of a Jewish tycoon who masquerades as a Nazi SS officer. But Robert Shaw's insights about victim and victimizer are transparent; his drama toys with the terrible reality of Hitler's final solution instead of illuminating...
...domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money or avoid having to confront...
...Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg clothing-store tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that he once campaigned on a platform of two houses for every family. Still, Sweden's voters were not reassured. While the Communists had won more than 6% of the popular vote and eight seats...
JIMMY SHINE, another entry by Murray Schisgal, with The Graduate's Dustin Hoffman. A young artist's best friend makes it as a real estate tycoon...
When the Norwegian shipping tycoon first showed his bride, a lover of 19th century art, around his Manhattan apartment back in 1956, she took one horrified look at the wealth of modern art hanging on the walls and gasped: "It's a nice place, but get rid of those terrible paintings!" Twelve years later, Sonja Henie, 55, is finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow...