Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensitive to Maheu's disfavor. "You frequently get annoyed with me if I interrogate you in any way that might possibly be considered as an expression of uncertain faith and confidence. Now, Bob, I don't know if I can do anything at this late date, but I certainly think we both should give it an all-out effort. Why don't you work your angles and I will work mine and let's hope that between us we can accomplish it." The "apprehensions and restlessness" centered on a possibility that Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus might not appear...
Paddy Chayefsky is a veteran of what is now known as TV's golden age, that period in the '50s when there was original, live drama every night and when the networks, uncertain of where they were going, were willing to experiment with talent and quality. Though TV has expanded beyond all recognition and is technically light years beyond those pioneering days, it has, in Chayefsky's view, entered its own dark ages. In its frantic race for ratings, it has become debased, an extension of a corporate way of life that Chayefsky sees "dehumanizing...
...gained from it is undoubtedly an inducement. Yet in a larger sense, the staff allow themselves to become intimately wrapped up in the welter of conflicts faced by their patients. At least technically, their part in the decision to perform an operation can be as difficult and as uncertain as that of the women; medical and legal risks are everpresent and diverse--there is not even a definite consensus as to the period of gestation after which a fetus should not be aborted...
More even than his uncertain conception of Malory, Steinbeck's misunderstanding of the nature of the legend itself creates problems in the work. He seems to have had little grasp of the innate flaws in the characters of Arthur, Lancelot or Gwenyver that led them inevitably to their end. He wrote to Otis, "Why this work should come to be known as the Morte d'Arthur I will never know." The comment indicates that he didn't see the story as a series of sevents leading to a climactic and all-encompassing death, a statement about human life...
...making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street Jesus." As much as his uncertain health and assaults of melancholy, it is good taste that ultimately undoes Stahr and permits Brady and the board of directors...