His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

The discovery of the giant Forties oilfield in October 1970 signalled that Scotland was about to become a major oil producing nation, a view confirmed when Shell Expro discovered the giant Brent oilfield in the northern North Sea east of Shetland in 1971.

The company acquired Atlas Chemical Industries Inc., a major US competitor, in 1971.

An important component of the Fourth Five-Year Plan ( 1971 – 75 ) was a major development program for the telecommunications system.

Founded in 1971, the World Economic Forum is one of the major annual meetings in the world

This new configuration became very popular in the Boston area, and by the fall of 1971, enthusiastic word-of-mouth led to the Modern Lovers ' first exposure to a major label when Stuart Love of Warner Bros. Records contacted them and organized the band's first multi-track session at Intermedia Studio in Boston.

* Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1971 was the first major North American city to be amalgamated in what was known as Unicity.

There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the 19th century – it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, with deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales dropping from 21. 9 from 1848 – 54 to 17 in 1901 ( contrasting with, for instance, 5. 4 in 1971 ).

The original plan envisioned taking control of the major cities on 26 March 1971, and then eliminating all opposition, political or military, within one month.

The belief that the yen, and several other major currencies, were undervalued motivated the United States ' actions in 1971.

These commentaries endeared him to President Nixon, who rewarded him with a rare, hour-long, one-on-one interview in 1971, at the height of the administration's animus against major newspapers, CBS, and NBC.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

In 1971, Heath oversaw the decimalisation of British coinage and in 1972, he implemented major reform to the UK's system of local government.

The Central Policy Review Staff was established by Heath in February 1971, while the 1972 Local Government Act changed the boundaries of Britain's counties and created " Metropolitan Counties " around the major cities ( e. g. Merseyside around Liverpool ): this caused significant public anger.

The May 17, 1971 episode saw two major changes on the show: The Treasure House was renovated and renamed " The Captain's Place " and the Captain replaced his black coat with a red coat.

Witten attended the Park School of Baltimore ( class of ' 68 ), and received his Bachelor of Arts with a major in history and minor in linguistics from Brandeis University in 1971.

His first major role came in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Between Klute in 1971 and Fun With Dick and Jane in 1977, Fonda did not have a major film success.

The Staggers Act was one of three major deregulation laws passed by Congress in a two year period, as the cumulative result of efforts to reform transport regulation begun in 1971, during the Richard Nixon Administration.

1971 was a year of major upheaval for Jefferson Airplane.

The Oilers were founded on November 1, 1971, with the team playing its first season in 1972, as one of twelve founding franchises of the major professional World Hockey Association ( WHA ).

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics and computer science as part of an interdisciplinary major in cybernetics.

Laird noted this in his FY 1971 report, " Except for the major policy decisions, I am striving to decentralize decisionmaking as much as possible ...

Nixon's Vietnam policy, as well as that of previous administrations, suffered further criticism when, in June 1971, the Pentagon Papers, a highly classified narrative and documentary history of U. S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, prepared at Secretary McNamara's order, was leaked and published in part in several major newspapers.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

Their album Sticky Fingers ( 1971 ) began a string of eight consecutive studio albums reaching number one in the United States.

THX 1138 was released to theaters on March 11, 1971 and was initially commercially unsuccessful, earning back $ 945, 000 in rentals for Warner Bros, but still leaving the studio in the red.

The 1971 studio cut version has never been released on any home media format.

Animator Chuck Jones, who worked for Iwerks ' studio in his youth, said “ Iwerks is Screwy spelled backwards .” Ub Iwerks died in 1971 of myocardial infarction in Burbank, California, aged 70.

He worked on the group's fourth, fifth and sixth studio albums – Fragile ( 1971 ), Close to the Edge ( 1972 ), and Tales from Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ).

The band still managed studio dates during 1971.

His last studio recordings as a leader were made in November 1971 for the English Black Lion label, near the end of a worldwide tour with " The Giants of Jazz ," a group which included Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey.

In May 1971, Bakshi moved his studio to Los Angeles to hire additional animators.

The latter brought the Sherman Brothers back to the studio for their first Disney feature film score since Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971.

Despite the dissension, the trio put its new work ethic to the test in the studio, releasing the Top 10 single " Sweet Hitch-Hiker " in July 1971, backed with Stu Cook's " Door to Door.

Ginger Baker in Africa-Ginger Baker sets up shop in a recording studio he built in Nigeria's Lagos in 1971.

In August 1971, Mayall produced a jazz-oriented session for bluesman Albert King and a few months later took on tour the musicians present in the studio.

Partly due to the popularity of these early remixes, 1971 saw Tubby's soundsystem consolidate its position as one of the most popular in Kingston and Tubby decided to open a studio of his own in Waterhouse.

In his book Tracy and Hepburn ( 1971 ), Kanin mentions that, when Columbia bought the rights to film Born Yesterday, studio boss Harry Cohn wouldn't consider casting the Hollywood-unknown Holliday.

It was the Peresson cello that du Pré played for the remainder of her career until 1973, using it for a second, live, recording of the Elgar Concerto, and her last studio recording, of Frédéric Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor and César Franck's Violin Sonata in A arranged for cello, in December 1971.

Lynes left the band in 1971, to be replaced ( in the studio ) by guests including keyboard player Jimmy Horowitz and Tom Parker.

In 1971, to make the animated feature Pippi Longstocking, Takahata left Toei Animation with Yoichi Kotabe and Hayao Miyazaki and transferred to " A Production " ( present: Shin-Ei Animation ), an animation studio founded by his former superior,.

When the film was released by Universal Studios, Nathaniel Davis, United States Ambassador to Chile from 1971 to 1973, filed a USD 150 million libel suit against the director and the studio, although he was not named directly in the movie ( he had been named in the book ).

Pictures at an Exhibition is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971 as a live album and re-released in 2001 as a remastered edition including both live and studio versions of Modest Mussorgsky's classical piece Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tarkus is the second studio album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer began to work on their second studio album in January of 1971.

In 1971, she released a country music studio album, I'd Rather Be Sorry, for Mercury records.

After Nantucket Sleighride, the band produced Flowers of Evil ( November 1971 ) consisting of one side of studio material and one live side, culled from a concert at New York's Fillmore East.