Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next two years in alternative service, as a clerk at a Los Angeles hospital. Carefully mapping out his life, the Cassius side of Dreyfuss planned on ten years of acting apprenticeship. But before he could get started, he says, in a voice that wavers somewhere between woe and wonder, "the movies happened-boom! boom! boom!" American Graffiti led to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which led to Jaws-which led to the beginning of a breakdown. The movie was just a big fish story, says Dreyfuss, and he "felt like a whore" acting...
...earned just $6 million in profits. The Bombay plant now makes only spare parts, having stopped the reconditioning of used computers six years ago. The company will sell at giveaway prices 125 obsolete model 1401 computers it has currently on lease in India, along with its facilities there. Analysts wonder if IBM's policy of 100% control will be able to withstand the assault-at home and abroad...
...ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish insecurities in role after role, one begins to wonder if he has anything else to give. Unlike Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, two other specialists in masculine hysteria, he has never come across as a fully rounded adult...
...immediate, severe danger, now, notes New Jersey Lawyer Robert Ansell, "the cumulative effect of beatings on a woman's consciousness is often considered. A woman may well be allowed quicker resort to a weapon than a man." That worries some lawmen. Says Sheriff Lawrence Schmies of Waupaca: "I wonder if these people know what they're doing. If they get their way, there's going to be a lot of killings...
...wonder everyone around here is talking about George Hughes' haircut, Glenn Fine's shoe size, Cornbread Maxwell's playing time, and the fact that the new swimming pool hasn't been completed yet. Both pro and college football seasons, save for the running of the Bears' Walter Payton and Woody Hayes' punching out of a television camera, have been nothing short of boring...