Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads, Witteman admits that he was "scared to death." Most Eastern critics tend to dismiss the macho...
...worry about the state of business, but retailers have the sales figures on their side. Says Larry Straus, vice president of Colorado's May D & F stores: "People have more confidence in the economy and are willing to spend their money. Inflation doesn't seem to bother people as much." Adds Kaufmann's Silver: "I got the feeling people were happier and less uptight than last year. There were more of the jingle bells afloat...
...should keep the children home from school the next day. He said 'No, send them along, like all the others.' I said that at least I would keep our car in front of the school, just in case. He agreed, but advised me not to bother till noon. I knew then that the war would break out around midday...
...thinking of- but not revealing - a number, and its human opponent tries to work out the secret by punching pushbuttons. Milton Bradley Co., which makes the gadget, supplies scratch pads for adults and slow-witted children, but self-respecting eleven-year-olds disdain these. The girl also does not bother with the relatively easy three-and four-digit problems. She plays at the rarefied five-digit level, which means she must hit on one out of a possible 30,240 combinations, and she keeps her notes in her head, the way the computer does...
...weeks now, I've been wanting to sort through my thoughts on being Jewish during the holiday season and Deborah Gelin's good-natured article in The Crimson's Holiday Supplement touched one of my more sensitive nerves. The Christmas tree in Mather dining hall does bother me, but I'm more concerned by the possibility that I'm being trivial or overly-serious--a possibility that Gelin raises and that I acknowledge. This is the Jewish holiday anguish, and Harvard Jews exhibit some of the standard reactions...