Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crack Up the Cars. Anhalt has since turned out two scripts for Elvis Presley, a Western, two comedies (Wives and Lovers and Boeing, Boeing) and, for Paramount, Affair in Arcady ("I call it an original because the novel was about a Chicago gangster turned Virginia farmer and the screenplay was about the late dictator of Iraq, Kassem"). He has just completed a TV script, A Time for Killing, with George C. Scott (Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, April 30), and is working on The Cruel Sport, a screen script about "the morality of Grand Prix racing...
While striving to keep the peace and maintain its own prosperity, the Western world in recent months has faced an unusual series of crises and alarums involving its monetary system. The pound has been attacked, the dollar's value questioned; gold is again and again the subject of debate. To narrow its payments gap, the U.S. has had to slash its foreign lending and investment-and has done it so successfully that many Europeans are now worrying about a money shortage. The latest development came last week when Britain, in an effort to correct its payments deficit, was forced...
Supercharged Bank. As the system now stands, the Western world suffers from the lack of a truly international money. In recent years, it has used dollars and pounds to finance almost all of its growth in trade. When the U.S. and Britain run big payments deficits, they pump out plenty of dollars and pounds for the world to use. When other Western countries accumulate a lot of dollars and pounds, on the other hand, their bankers start to complain of inflation and tend to trade in some of that money for U.S. and British gold. There is constantly a dilemma...
Major Dundee is Charlton Heston, and the writers of this long-winded, quasi-Biblical western apparently had fun filling their script with reminders that the star has previously played such roles as Ben-Hur, Moses and John the Baptist. With Old Testament wrath, he pursues Chief Sierra Charriba through the wilderness in A.D. 1865. But once Heston gets on Mexican soil, Director Sam Peckinpah (Ride the High Country) lets Dundee ramble so freely that the Apaches are soon lost in subplots...
Last year I was the only sports writer in the western hemisphere to pick the Baltimore Orioles and the Philadelphia Phillies, and on Sept. 1, I was waiting for my world series tickets to arrive in the mail. I honestly wasn't too surprised when the Yankees rallied, but the collapse of the Phillies left me a bit shaken...