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While sexual scheming takes up a disproportionate share of The Law, Author Vailland manages to use it chiefly to accent the greed, misery and lust for power that fill his febrile small-town world. The moral of The Law is that the strong and ruthless will crush the weak and righteous almost every time-and Author Vailland has the knack of making their victory seem inevitable...
...longer will the weighty 'Cliffies be able to sign up for fruity, calorie-free desserts. It seems that in the past there has always been either too much, or too little, fruit at Radcliffe. Whether we have to thank the abstention of the lean or the greed of the gross for this situation it is not clear...
...accused Producer Dan Enright of feeding him answers in advance (TIME, Sept. 8). The tape brought no such conclusive evidence. Instead, it did something that was possibly more important. It offered a fascinating look behind the gleaming isolation booths and the golden M.C. grins into a back room of greed, craftiness and weird emotions...
...Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that he be "identified publicity-wise as the sole creator of Porgy and Bess, and thereupon he ordered me to discharge my public relations counselor"; he "characterized himself as 'a powerful man,' whose enmity or displeasure could...
...imitator of NBC's successful The Price Is Right, is perhaps the most artful personification of greed among the new crop of grab-the-swag shows. Hosted by Cyclonic Ham Bert Parks in the guise of an auctioneer, the show parcels out $5,000 in cash to each of four contestants to bid for the clues they wish to buy. The clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light...