Word: adrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot House junior from Adrian, Mich., who tallied 58 tackles (51 unassisted this year--third highest on the team--succeeds offensive guard Mike Brown as the leader of the Crimson squad...
...occasion was the U.S. premiere of Houdini a "circus opera" by Dutch Composer Peter Schat and British Writer Adrian Mitchell. A note in Mitchell's libretto says that the work-originally produced in Amsterdam in 1977-"isn't a documentary but a celebration." What it celebrates is the spirit of human freedom symbolized by Houdini's ingenious escapes from every form of shackle and confinement...
...president is Adrian Rogers, 48, pastor of an 11,000-member Memphis church and uncompromising champion of biblical "inerrancy." The term means that the Bible's every word was God-inspired, so that as originally written the books were error-free in every detail. The standard summary of Southern Baptist verities, the 1925 "Baptist Faith and Message," declares that the Bible "has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
...inerrancy militants organized the Baptist Faith and Message Fellowship to turn things around. Adrian Rogers was the group's most prominent founding father and served on its board until last month. Besides that, his Memphis church gives $36,000 a year to the adjacent Mid-America Baptist Seminary, established by those who think the six official Southern Baptist seminaries are soft on Scripture...
...stalling techniques are random and far fetched. Stallone tries to create drama out of Rocky's inexplicable inability to gain steady employment, his domestic foibles and, finally, out of his wife's simultaneous bouts with childbirth and coma. These developments are so poorly conceived that Adrian's brother (a newly slim Burt Young) must dart in and out of scenes to deliver plot information. Once Rocky starts to train in earnest, the film becomes less a sequel than a prosaic remake. "For a 45-minute fight, you got to train 45,000 minutes," barks Trainer Burgess Meredith...