Word: paramount
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People are also paramount at Pastor Jimmy Allen's First Baptist Church in fading downtown San Antonio. In the past decade, it has grown from 7,000 to 9,000 members, 1,000 of them Chicanos. Allen, currently the honorific president of the Southern Baptists, combines Bible preaching with 20 ministries to meet every imaginable need. At the Fourth Street Inn restaurant, 55 volunteers offer low-pressure "witnessing" to paying customers and use the profits to offer lunch to anyone who is hungry, no questions asked. Upstairs, counselors are ready to chat. There is also a hostel for the homeless...
There was also the voice, suddenly made famous on radio, that inspired Hollywood to cast Crosby in the feature picture (Paramount's The Big Broadcast) that was to launch the flip side of Bing's career. In the movies as onstage, Crosby seemed always to come on singing happy, upbeat, don't-worry songs that the trouble-weary public loved during the Depression. He scored successes in such movies as Pennies from Heaven and Waikiki Wedding, but it was as the lazy, goodhearted ne'er-do-well in Sing You Sinners, in 1938, that he found...
...over its running time. Bertolucci has now cut 1900 from 5½ hours to four without substantially altering its impact or scope-or for that matter, remedying its built-in weaknesses. Last week, on the eve of the new version's premiere at the New York Film Festival, Paramount Pictures announced that it would distribute the briefer movie nationwide...
...events in China on the basis of such salient symbols as Chairman Hua's hairstyle." In a country in which thousands of people filled the streets of the capital last May in massive demonstrations against the housefly, the decision by Hua to at least physically imitate Mao is or paramount importance. The attempted ridicule of Mr. Butterfield was clearly misdirected...
...legal probes were not giving Bluhdorn enough headaches, G & W, which has several operating companies, ranging from Paramount Pictures in Hollywood to New Jersey Zinc Inc., has a heartache with its earnings. While operating revenues for the first three quarters of fiscal year 1977 are up 7.2%, net income is down 11 % because of depressed prices for sugar and paper, two big G&W divisions. The company's enormous long-term debt of $1.1 billion must be serviced, at high cost. A sizable investment portfolio that includes stakes in such companies as Simmons (mattresses), Wurlitzer (juke boxes), Amfac (sugar...