Word: allen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outrageous! Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind his success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
Fine's backcourt mate is sure-shooting Rich Bengal. Bengal will be spelled by sophomores Mike Stenhouse and Bobby Allen. The forwards are co-captain Gary Ackerman, a trenchman under the boards, 6-ft. 6-in. Cyrus Booker, and swingmen Mark Hadley and Bob Hooft. Hooft was the Crimson's second leading scorer last year, averaging 10.3 points a game...
...statement, prompted by the Allen Bakke case, encourages the use of "minority admission goals" and "classbiased hiring practices" in order to achieve racial equality in university admissions and in employment opportunities...
...metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals in their epaulets and decorations receive the homage of subservient anniversaries. Men reduced to street names meet on this square." Yet when he recounts his surreal dreams, the narrator sometimes seems to be giving an unconscious impression of Woody Allen: "A man with a sack stands in the doorway, and when I walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such...
...DIED. Allen Lockerman, 70, former FBI special agent who took part in the slaying of Bank Robber John Dillinger; of cancer; in Atlanta. Lockerman, an agent at the bureau's Chicago office during the 1930s, also worked on the cases of such celebrated gangsters as Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd...