Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...towns, and their turnover rate averages 34% a year, against 15% in Stamford, Conn. Worst of all, Yaseen reports, it is becoming almost impossible to attract middle-level executives to New York, because living costs average 40% higher than in, say, Dallas or Nashville and 12% higher than in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit. He figures that in the next ten years, "advertising agencies, banks, brokerage houses and shipping companies will not move out, but it is likely that many of the others will...
...resultant movie, Gaily, Gaily, is a kind of Tom Jones in Chicago, a broad-shouldered knockabout farce that has no business being so comic-but is hugely funny because of Director Norman Jewison...
...plays the hero with the numbstruck charm of a tarnished cherub. Ben believes totally in America's favorite myth: the up-from-nothing success story. So believing, he becomes living proof of that other American truism: there's a sucker born every minute. Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways. Pickpockets, exposure and starvation nearly do him in until the boy comes under the wing of a municipal madam named Queen Lil (Melina Mercouri). Lil's most valued friend is one Francis X. Sullivan (Brian Keith...
...deadpan comedian. Now, teamed with Bridges, he gives the liveliest performance of his career as an agnostic Catholic and whoremaster-repentant whose right hand has not consulted his left for 40 years. The pro and the amateur barge around the gaudy streets of a meticulously reconstructed 1910 Chicago, hungry for trouble. Ben treats each new experience as if he were staring down the well of life. One time he falls in and drowns. But if life is a cheat, death is a double-dealer. On a morgue slab, Ben is given a dose of Adrenalin by a quack...
...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...