Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-year low. The Consumer Confidence Index, measured by the highly regarded University of Michigan Research Center, has plummeted from 95 in January to 79.7 now. President Nixon's economic policymakers recognize the signs of danger. "We are now at a critical period of economic events," says Budget Director Robert Mayo. "The economy is in a state of delicate balance...
Otto Eckstein $992 1.9% 4.4% 6.3% 4.3% 4.6% David Grove $981.3 .9% 4.3% 5.2% 4.4% 4.8% Walter Heller $988 .2% .4% .6% 4.3% to 4.5% 4.7% to 5% Robert Nathan $980 1.5% 4% plus 5.5% 4.5% minus near 5% Joseph Pechman $990 2.2% 4% 6.2% 4.5% 4.8% Arthur Okun $987 2% 4% 6% 4.5% minus 5% to 5.5% Beryl Sprinkle $966 none...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a strenuous attempt to make that marathon a metaphor for man's fate. The contestants are the populace of a wasted nation. One girl, Ruby (Bonnie Bedelia), is pregnant. Gloria (Jane Fonda) is a brassbound bitch from the Dust Bowl. Robert (Michael Sarrazin) is an open-faced kid from a farm. Sailor (Red Buttons) is a Navy veteran whose ship has gone out. The man running the marathon-and carrying the movie-is a dime-store Barnum named Rocky (Gig Young). The son of an itinerant faith healer, Rocky has read...
Carrying a Corpse. Ironies like that are easy to manufacture, and Scenarists James Poe and Robert E. Thompson operate an assembly line. Ruby tunelessly chants The Best Things in Life Are Free, then crawls for the pennies people throw her way. A Harlow-eyed blonde (Susannah York) is in the contest not for the $1,500 prize, but for a chance to be seen by a movie talent scout who might elevate her to bearable unreality. When the marathon begins to drag, Rocky dresses the participants in track suits and has them race around the floor-an event that literally...
...because of Gloria's inexhaustible drive that the film buckles. The dancers stay up for more than a thousand hours. The hall becomes a human zoo where legs, spines and, finally, minds fail. Rocky extends a typically cynical offer: Why don't Gloria and her new partner Robert get married out there on the floor? They can get divorced afterward, can't they? After all, warns the M.C., "I may not know a winner when I see one, but I sure know a loser...