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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while public opinion in the East seemed to hesitate in reacting to the President's performance since his Camp David summit, but now it has taken a decidedly negative swing. The question is no longer whether Carter has strengthened or weakened his presidency, for it appears certain he has hurt himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now, for the Hard Sell | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...have not yet even decided whether Donovan will be paid a regular salary (the legal limit would be $57,500) or serve on a dollar-a-year basis. Donovan will live in Washington and ask for a leave of absence from the corporate boards on which he serves. But first he will take a two-week vacation, traveling by barge through France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Adviser to the President | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Metzenbaum asked the authors of the report during the hearing whether they had met with anyone on the White House staff, and when they said they had not, Metzenbaum telephoned Eisenstadt in the middle of the hearing to arrange the appointment...

Author: By Steven Waldman, | Title: Authors of B-School Energy Report To Meet With Carter Aide, Senators | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

This Dracula had its roots in the 1977 Broadway production of a 1927 play by John Balderston and Hamilton Deane, a corny, embarrassing old drawing-room comedy-melodrama with one or two amusing confrontations, sort of a "Vampire Who Came To Dinner." Director Dennis Rosa couldn't decide whether he wanted a campy parody of 30's horror movies or a straight chiller (which would have been impossible with that script). So he tried to do it both ways and it came out neither--a mess, complicated by the celebrated Edward Gorey's black-and-white cartoon sets, which reduced...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...terminal indecision is Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941), starring Gary Cooper. Five endings were shot; at one point, three were previewing simultaneously in different towns. Another classic case was Casablanca. Until the very end, the script remained refreshingly free of any ending whatever. No one knew whether lisa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) would stay in Casablanca with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) or leave with her husband (Paul Henreid). The production took on a kind of war-zone chaos, with scenes filmed as fast as writers typed them. When one of the cast inquired politely about the plot, Director Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Playing the End Game | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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