Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wright agreed to co-author the book shortly after DeLorean left. Wright interviewed the executive at length, got DeLorean's personal papers and says that "anything of a substantive or controversial nature is either on tape or appears in John's handwritten notes. It's airtight." But DeLorean backed out of the project; he has started an auto plant in Northern Ireland and may want GM's help in securing parts and dealers. After years of frustration, Wright took out a $50,000 second mortgage on his house and published the book himself. The work...
Stoppard's only message is hardly original or airtight; it's nothing new to tell politicans they should worry about doing their jobs right and not about their public images, and it's specious to say that only newspapers are interested in sex scandals when the newspapers that cover then sell hundreds of thousands more copies than the newspapers that...
...Huskies scored the first goal of the season against the Crimson's airtight defense when striker Jana Duffy slid through the defense early in the second half and pushed a hard chip shot by sophomore goalie Barb Mahon...
...there is such a thing as a foolproof movie, Escape from Alcatraz must be it. Throw together Clint Eastwood, an airtight jailbreak plot, a first-rate storyteller like Director Don Siegel ... and what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, almost nothing. True, Escape from Alcatraz embraces virtually every cliché known to prison movies. Eastwood does not exactly break new ground as an actor either. Yet this film's familiarity ends by breeding affection rather than contempt. When an old-fashioned genre piece is executed with spirit, audiences can rediscover the simple, classic pleasures of moviegoing...
...Harvard laxwomen notched their second victory of the week yesterday afternoon, when the Crimson's airtight defence easily contained Dartmouth's shoddy attack to save...