Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harry and Tonto opens warmly and realistically as Harry, an elderly retired teacher, is about to be evicted from his apartment on New York's decaying Upper West Side. Along with his faithful cat, Tonto, he stands up to the police and the wreckers until his son arrives to hustle him off in embarrassment. After a few weeks spent living with his son's family, Harry realizes how many household problems he is aggravating and decides to visit his other children in Chicago and California. Writers Josh Greenfield and Paul Mazursky probably had King Lear's peregrinations in mind...
...blasts of whimsy all lifted from a Donald E. Westlake novel and curdled in shipment. The actors perform with resolute lack of charm. Scott appears to be doing some sort of New Year's party imitation of Humphrey Bogart, an idea that consists entirely of petrifying his upper lip and pressing the dialogue out between the spaces in his teeth. The other members of the cast seem to have dropped by on their way to the unemployment office...
Tkach announced that he had found a new blood clot in Nixon's upper left leg. In an interview to be published next week in Medical World News, Tkach recalls that Nixon had had thrombophlebitis "at least once before, in the same place, in the same leg." Tkach says that he had feared a recurrence, especially because his stubborn patient refused to wear the elastic bandage he prescribed. Tkach also complained that "I can't get this man near a hospital," and he had no success on that score last week...
Boxing will indeed survive, but championship prize money will not be the same. Ali's charisma has helped a number of heavyweight opponents into the upper-income brackets. During his own career, Ali has earned more than $10 million in purses alone, not including next week's fortune. Were George Foreman fighting anyone else, the take would not be half as large...
...black patrolmen charged that police officials made an unwarranted reduction in the number of openings for the rank of sergeant and that the reduction was motivated by a desire to keep blacks out of upper-level positions. There has only been one black sergeant in the department's history...