Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost hear this eager whisper down the corridors of Orion Pictures: "The Hotel New Hampshire could be the Tom Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...
...know more about the workings of the Federal government than any living human being," he said. Richardson has held a variety of Cabinet-level positions, including Secretaryships of Defense, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare, and a stint as Attorney General...
...Richardson also called for "significant savings" in defense and "balance" in Medicare and certain Federal employee retirement pensions to control the burgeoning Federal deficit. He advocated tax loopholes, perhaps in combination with a decrease in tax rates...
Although he won't formally announce for another week, Richardson has already amassed a $150,000 war chest, and holds a two-to-one lead in many polls over Republican opponent Ray Shamie...
Director Tony Richardson's faithful adaptation of the living novel is perhaps the movie's greatest fault Irving's prose has a subtle ability to suspend reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear...