Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citizen Kane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother) Orson Welles...
Citizen Cane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother). Orson Welles...
...illicit opium crop-a full two-thirds of the world's output. A major participant in that war fell last week when Thai agents, advised by U.S. narcotics agents, captured Lo Hsing-han, long suspected of being Southeast Asia's largest and most powerful heroin tycoon. In a rare display of cooperation, Burmese armed forces, which at one time winked at Lo's operations, attacked Lo and men from his private army, forcing them across the border into Thailand and into the hands of the Thai Special Narcotics Organization...
...real test, of course, is whether a rebuilt Chicago can lure suburbanites back into town. Real Estate Tycoon James C. Downs Jr., head of the Central Area Committee, is optimistic: "We are shifting to an adult urban society. The birth rate is down, and people are not going to find it very attractive any more to make the commute from the suburbs every day. We've also passed the threshold in the integration battle." Mayor Daley clearly agrees. At the official release of the plan, he proudly called it "one of the great acts in the renaissance...
Rosi and Volonti give a persuasive portrayal of the style and manner of a furiously single-minded international businessman. Chewing out the sloppy employees of one of his motels, threatening vengeance on an American tycoon who patronizes him at a business lunch, or doing a full-scale snow job on a dubious journalist, Mattei was obviously an archetypal figure of our time. If The Mattei Affair is not quite as good in design and execution as it might have been, it is nevertheless an interesting and honorable attempt to sketch impressionistically the sort of complex personality the movies too often...