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Heavy spending, of course, no more guarantees success now than it did in the 1960s. Fox's $12 million Lucky Lady, starring Liza Minnelli, has been an utter flop that contributed heavily to the studio's first-quarter loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors...
Hughes had lived for so long in utter isolation that many people questioned whether the body was actually his. The Internal Revenue Service, which had been on the verge of declaring him legally dead in order to claim the huge estate tax, took fingerprints from the corpse to check against genuine Hughes prints on file with the FBI in Washington. It was Hughes, all right...
...bomb" while the Wall Street Journal rated it "one of the most important pieces of TV journalism ever, and spellbinding besides." Still, most sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union-or China-but can be the result of local forces. Moreover, he feels it would be "criminally irresponsible...
...Stock's utter lack of conviction is rivalled by Kerry Konrad's slightly less futile attempt at Burleigh. While Burleigh's narrow-minded concentration on protecting the Protestant succession and his eagerness for Mary's death make him a less than sympathetic figure, he should be played with some semblance of lordly dignity; he may be wrong, but, after all, he is an English peer. Expressing his frustration as petulance, always raising his voice instead of varying his tone, Konrad's Burleigh never seems quite at home in the Elizabethan court...
...moment of utter mutual incomprehension between two cultures. The Japanese felt that their principal art was being looted from them, and they were right. Hundreds of ancient swords, including 42 documented National Treasures made between the 12th and 15th centuries, vanished as souvenirs and have never reappeared. The Americans thought they were guarding against insurgency, and they were wrong. The Nippon-tō-"art swords"-were ritual and aesthetic objects, the core symbols of Shintoism, and would not have been used in combat...