Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More pain was to come. At 17 she visited her mother?then playing on Broadway in Never Too Late. "It was while I was-there that my father died. That was a very big blow." John Farrow's reputation as a roistering, reckless womanizer conflicted sharply with the strict, militant Catholicism he displayed at home. But Mia accepted what confounded his colleagues. "He was priest and lover, powerful and incompetent, strong and weak, a poet and a sailor. He was a very complicated man and I loved him very much." And her mother? "Well . . . like . . . my father was strict...
Isolated and Denied. Blacks in big urban high schools are not the only students agitating for change. Teen-agers who attend private secondary schools are also restless, though their dissent is far more decorous. Thus, at a student-power conference held last week on the campus of the Northfield and Mount Hermon Schools in Massachusetts, 150 students from 40 private schools politely complained about empty rules and outmoded customs to a panel of four psychiatrists and psychologists from the Harvard University health services. In essence, the students said that they were isolated from real life and denied a big enough...
Rebuffed in merger feelers toward Saint-Gobain, BSN quietly bought 10% of its competitor's 11.5 million shares. Then, in December, Riboud sprang his frontal attack. Backed by three big banking houses, BSN offered to exchange convertible debentures with a face value of $46 for Saint-Gobain common stock, then selling for $29. Such tactics, common in the U.S. and Great Britain, had never before been tried in France. Much to BSN's surprise, Saint-Gobain did not take long to fight back strongly...
Hall emphasized closeups instead of movie-style shots of sweeping vistas and cluttered tableaux, which, though characteristic of Shakespeare on the big screen, are hardly suitable for TV's cramped picture. "A long shot," he explained, "diminishes the power of what is being said." The many full-face shots build an air of intimacy between actor and audience that is especially suitable for the TV screen (though the film was also released in London last week as a feature movie). "For the first time," says Paul Rogers, who plays Bottom in a blustering, John Bullish vein, "a Shakespearean movie...
...during the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. To Zapata opportunists like the character in the Fuentes book were cabrones(s.o.b.'s). "As soon as they see a little chance, right away they want to get in on it, and they take off to brown-nose the next big shot on the rise," he told Francisco (Pancho) Villa, his more flamboyant and barbaric northern counterpart. Villa later retired from the field with a $250,000 government "grant." Zapata was cut down in an ambush set by men who thought that death was the best cure for incorruptibility...