Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crooked way he rose to wealth: he married it, in Priscilla Wheelan (the Wheelan family was sole owner of American Photograph Corp. and Riggs was handed one of its executive positions). He settled down in the corporate saddle for several lazy years -- now that's hardly your tycoon's rugged individualism. There is as well the other matter of his marriage: the simple, gentle soul his wife remembers walked out of it with a $1,000,000 settlement. And if you still need convincing -- though perhaps this isn't playing fair -- just take a look at the guy. Notice...
Economic Curbs. Gelbard, an aluminum tycoon who immigrated from Poland, is instituting Perón's economic policies, which so far include price controls and cutbacks as well as restrictions on foreign investment. U.S. business interests, with a total $1.3 billion in direct investment, are nervous about the curbs. But the U.S. Government, which opposed Perón's first election bid in 1946, has been treading softly this time. It has even leaked stories indicating its acceptance of him as the best hope for his country's stability...
...most promiscuous miss in town, well-nigh a nymphomaniac; that I was, get this, a Moaner, a Screamer, a Scratcher; that I was the Body-by-Fisher Fisher (I wasn't) and as a baby heiress I'd been promised to a son of my daddy's tycoon pal; that I was a Lesbian...
...DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after its publication. At that point in his career, Mailer found the challenge of the novel paralyzingly demanding. In the appraisal which followed the finishing of the work, Mailer revealed that he had decided to make...
...town in the 50s. Without overstatement, and with great attention to detail, the film sympathetically unmasks the quiet desperation that underlies its characters' existence. The acting is perfect, and the movie is wisely shot in black and white. Cybil Shepard's role as the spoiled daughter of an oil tycoon is the performance that started her movie career. Cinema...