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...none at all for miscalculation or self-indulgence. The film began as "a daydream" back in 1973, when Lucas first got the desire "to make a B movie I wanted to see," and was modeled on Republic serials, those thrill-a-minute kiddie-matinee favorites of the '30s...
...reverie centered on a college professor who, when not off on foreign adventures, could be found in a nightclub with a slinky, '30s-style blond on each arm. With a little help from Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, who worked on the story for two weeks, the blonds and the nightclub disappeared. Lucas' archaeologist hero (along with anthropology, it was the producer's favorite college course) finds himself recruited by the American Government, circa 1936, to foil, singlehanded, a huge German team that is on the brink of rediscovering the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, in which...
...always so. In Lost in America, Singer recalls the mid-'30s, when he left his native Poland for the Promised City, New York, N.Y. Obscured by the reputation of his expatriate older brother, Novelist I.J. Singer, Isaac becomes a stateless wanderer, at home...
After federal regulators locked the doors at the failed Economy Savings and Loan Association in Chicago last week, worried depositors immediately began gathering on the sidewalk outside. For one white-haired woman, the scene is just brought what back happened haunting in the memories. '30s," she "This fretted...
Frankfurter fancied himself an expert at "personalia," his word for charming, persuading and manipulating others. As a Harvard law professor in the '30s, he inaugurated the Cambridge-to-Washington shuttle, becoming one of the first of a long line of academics to serve as White House sages. While he personally stroked F.D.R.'s liberalism, he dispatched his best and brightest students, his "happy hot dogs," like Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss, to mold the New Deal bureaucracy...