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It's a great year for disaster movies. The Posedion Adventure,
Airport 75, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno have grossed
millions. There's certainly . nothing to take you mind off your
troubles like a good disaster.
And now Catastrophe Productions ("If It's Not a Great Movie,
It's Not a Catastrophe") has produced the greatest disaster movie
of them all. It's called "The Economy!"
The Economy is a flying ocean liner 100 stories tall. It carries
millions of passengers. They all have faith in their new captain, a
decentjovable well-intentioned man played by Eddie Albert.
He has just taken over The Economy from the villain, played by
Richard Basehart. The unscrupulous Richard Basehart cuts corners,
engaged in shoddy deals and bugged up the whole place with
dangerous wiring that proved self-destructive.
Captain Eddie Albert has hired as his vice captain handsome,
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dynamic Ralph Bellamy. Ralph Bellamy secretly thinks he knows
how to run The Economy better than Eddie Albert does. He wants
to be captain. But for thctime being, he is acting very obsequious.
That sets up a conflict there.
The excitement starts when The Economy goes out of control.
The problem is that the Captain Albert, after carefully scanning his
vast band of indicators, can't determine whether it is going up or
down. He calls in his Council of Advisors, played with marvelous
humorous relief by The Three Stooges.
"Gentlemen," he says grimly, "I want a yes or no answer. Is The
Economy going up or down?"
"Yes," they say.
At this point, the captain's press secretary (Jack Lemmon)
reassures the panicking passengers. "Don't worry, folks," he says,
"our captain knows what he's doing." And this is true because the
captain, who has frozen at the controls, is doing nothing.
At last he acts. "I know in my bones The Economy is going
up," he says. He firmly pushes the down lever. The Economy goes
into a nosedive.
In a dramatic scene, a tattered stockbroker (John Carradine)
cries, "We have just plunged through the psychological barrier of
600!" And he jumps out the window.
As if this weren't enough, a sneaky band of Arabs is trying to
sabotage The Economy by cutting off its fuel lines.
Captain Albert calls his top negotiator, played by Woody Allen.
Woody Allen is making love to Jill St. John or Raquel Welch or
both. But duty first. He threatens to kill all the Arabs if they don't
stop making trouble, They just laugh. Fiendishly.
Diaster looms! The Economy is now clearly out of control,
plummeting downward faster and faster. The passengers are
shrieking. Captain Albert is feverishly twisting dials and priming
pumps. All to no avail.
"Death before dishonor," he says. And he falls on his WIN
button.
In a gigantic spectacle never before equalled on any screen, The
Economy crashes - wiping out every single person aboard!
Despite the millions poured into The Economy 4t has attracted
hardly a single fan.
"I can't understand it," says Herbert Thumstucker. head of
Catastrophe Productions. "You'd think a really great disaster like
this would be just the thing to take the people's minds of their
troubles."
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1975)
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SPECIAL TOPICS: LITERATURE AND CONVER
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FOURTH SEMESTER SPANISH (Spanish 202f)
PROBLEMS IN SECONDARY EDUCATION: DEVEL
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ABOUT LATIN AMERICA (Sec. Ed. 896f)
PRO-SEMINAR IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES or
CONTRACT HOURS IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCA
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Lang., Poll. Scl., Hist. Phil. Ed. or Hist. Phil. Ed. 932)
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS
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SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN BANKING AND FINANCE
or INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN BANKING AND
FINANCE (Finance 450 or B.A. 890v)
ETHNIC DANCE or DANCE WORKSHOP (PE
127390f)
PRE COLUMBIAN AND COLONIA LATIN AMERI
CAN ART (Art 3989860
SOUTH AMERICAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
DRAWING THEORY (Art 399896f)
GALAPAGOS ISLAND STUDY TOUR (Zoology 498
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF LATIN AMERICA or
CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES (Econ. 323339f)
SPECIAL TOPICS: INTENSIVE CONVERSATION
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Wednesday, January 15, 1975
the daily nebraskan
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