Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, guidelines in the past have succeeded-at times, for a while. Their history goes back to John F. Kennedy, who in 1962 established a system relating price and wage increases to worker productivity. The eventual guidelines: 3.2% a year for wages, zero average for prices. After Kennedy won a celebrated confrontation with steelmakers and got them to cancel a price boost, inflation rates stayed low until the Viet Nam War touched off a boom that overwhelmed the guidelines...
...medical center's spokesman, Henry Wilson, said an established criterion for death is two EEG readings of zero brain activity taken 24 hours apart...
...that cheapens and detracts from its political message. Complicating the problems embedded in the script are two extremely talented comedians who find themselves cast in straight dramatic roles which cannot suppress their seemingly irrepressible knack for "getting a laugh." Because it's impossible to watch either Woody Allen or Zero Mostel without expecting a humorous line sooner or later, and because the film's script occasionally obliges them with quips that serve only to destroy the actors' commendable efforts to render their roles serious and believable, The Front fails to fulfill its potential as a film of consequence. Instead...
Alongside the Prince storyline the film develops the tale of Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), the leading actor in the show Prince "writes." Brown is under investigation by an ominous character named Hennesey who works in an agency called Freedom Information. (The blatantly fascist-trappings of Hennesey's character and office are an effective touch.) The eventual blacklisting of Brown, because he once marched in a May Day parade, which Hennesey recommends to the networks, provides the catalyst for the remaining events of the film...
...Actor Zero Mostel, blacklisted during the 1950's for being pro-communist, told 300 students in Lehman Hall last night, "They couldn't even call me a red--I was deeply hurt...