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When the people of the real Nashville get to see the film of Nashville no one knows how they'll react. There was a story going around that the picture wouldn't open there, that the City Council had banned it as insulting and a blow to the city's self-image, but this turned out to be bogus. One Nashvillean said they were kind of proud of the movie: another said that the reason Nashville hasn't opened there yet (although it has in twenty cities) was that a local film critic blasted it--particularly the music, which...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Nashville Cats | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

British Historian Arnold Toynbee has glumly predicted that the commodity-producing nations will launch a kind of economic siege warfare against the Western capitalistic world, which will react by putting its own economies "in irons"?that is, dictatorially regulating all production, consumption and investment. U.S. Economist Milton Friedman, a disciple of Adam Smith, darkly suspects that capitalist freedom will turn out to be "an accident" in the long sweep of history, and that humanity will sink back into its "natural state" of "tyranny and misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Capitalism Survive? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury ministries and central banks will make some wrong judgments?and the economy will react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Capitalism Survive? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly. These days Sellers can most regularly be found on television, pitching for a major airline from behind a variety of disguises, so it is good to have him here in a comic role that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Minkey Business | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...consultant contacted by phone more than 600 alumni from the classes of 1926 through 1974 and asked questions ranging from how the alumni view the school educationally to how they react to fund appeals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Poll Finds 83% Have Favorable Attitude to Harvard | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

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