Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his political incumbency allows Thurmond the security of a non-response, it would probably be devastating for the 75-year-old to encounter his younger, more aggressive challenger. Their difference in age, however, is the one issue that Ravenel refuses to debate...
Nyiregyházi's record and tapes fascinate: in an age of precision playing, they are passionate. His slow tempos, like Liszt's, are funereal; each note seems weighted. He repeats at will sections that he finds lyrical. When he is loud, he is very, very loud, and often the great rushes of sound are overpedaled into a blur...
...basic theme of her new collection, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries - What Am I Doing in the Pits? (McGraw-Hill; $7.95), is surviving the daily bombardment of laundry, junk food and evidences of middle age. Bombeck herself has done it, as an Ohio mother of three and wife of a school principal. Now, with her children grown, she lives in a suburb of Phoenix. Bombeck has been called the female Art Buchwald. A better parallel might be Bill Mauldin, the author of World War IIs Willie and Joe cartoons. For at bottom, she views the housewife as society...
...children are both teen-age boys, and they do not live in a Marine boot camp but in a Manhattan brownstone where their mother writes novels (Such Good Friends, A Sea-Change) and their father practices psychiatry. Theirs is undoubtedly a special case, but Gould's principles of shared responsibility have broad applications and roots that go back to the 19th century farm...
...times ingenious, but it is mainly an excuse for Lelouch to indulge his romantic reveries. Almost every character in the film falls in love at least once, usually with idyllic effect. The liaisons are delightfully improbable. Antagonists Reggiani and Morgan both carry on with gorgeous lovers half their age before making a beeline for each other; Lechat's daughter (Christine Laurent) marries his partner (Philippe Leotard) right after their first blind date. Though Lelouch is too discreet to show any of these couples in bed, he composes his own eroticism out of Normandy sunlight, knowing glances and Francis...