Search Details

Word: billye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Subsidies Up. As for the rest of the Administration's farm policy, scarcely anyone could ask for more. The Agriculture Department will hand out some $4.1 billion in subsidies this year, a whopping 32% jump over 1971. Most of the increase will be for feed grains from mid-America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMS: A Bounty that Ended the Mutiny | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Though the movie deals with boxing, the violence on which it focuses is not the brutalization of the body but the devastation of the human spirit. It centers on Billy Tully, an overaged boxer whose psychological survival depends on a comeback he cannot rationally hope to accomplish. After a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Winner....And Still Defeated | 9/29/1972 | See Source »

THE CENTRAL QUEST for love and acceptance belongs to Billy Tully. Once the object of the crowds' adulation. Once married to a beautiful woman who deserted him when he started losing, he still carries the picture of his former wife in his wallet. To again have his stature and to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Winner....And Still Defeated | 9/29/1972 | See Source »

Fat City achieves an almost palpable mood of defeated loneliness that is tremendously moving and thought-provoking throughout. Sadly, its creation is never more than an atmosphere. We are never invited into, never engulfed by this world. To the end, Billy Tully, physically and emotionally battered, blames his failures on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Winner....And Still Defeated | 9/29/1972 | See Source »

"Oh...that's good topic to bring up, Hugh. You know, strangely enough, hockey at Harvard is similar in some ways to track at Harvard--at least in the problems that the teams must face this year. Both Billy Cleary and Bill McCurdy are coming off sub-par seasons--at...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Jock Talk: What's Ahead, John Harvard? | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | Next