Word: australians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noted expert in the field of Australian politics and political psychology will become visiting professor for Australian studies in the Government Department for the 1980-81 academic year...
Alan F. Davies, who has had a career at the University of Melbourne going back to 1944 when he received his B.A. there, has been associated with several other institutions including the London School of Economics and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University...
...Phalangist gunmen. In their assault on the National Liberals last week, the Phalangists seized and burned the home of Dany Chamoun, the son of the party leader and the commander of the group's militia. Dany was not home at the time, but the Phalangists kidnaped his Australian-born wife Patty and daughter Tracy, 17, and held them for several hours before surrendering them to the Red Cross...
...refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...
...taught batch of skills rarely seen singly, much less in combination. The two-handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste...