Word: braving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what Mr. Bartley can for a slab of chopped beef; we also doubt there are too many with the nerve to charge his prices, either. It's the classic hang-up: this place has a good thing going, and the owner knows it. But it's worth it to brave the crowd, shell out a couple of bucks, and suffer through the interminably slow service, just to sink your teeth into one of those classic burgers. At least once in a while...
...SMALL BAND of brave whites surrounded by maddened savages on the Dark Continent: it was the sort of story that once gave a romantic veil to the sordid history of Africa's colonization. American newspapers seized on the invasion of Shaba province by Katangan rebels and the subsequent rescue mission by French and Belgian paratroopers, as if they had found a modern version of Stanley and Livingston. The Boston Herald-American screamed out "Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll...
Samuel Beckett performed some brave work with the French Resistance during World War II: He married a woman seven years his senior in 1961 after having lived with her for amost a quarter-century...
...pays no more attention to the obligations which bind him to the past or to the future, but experiences the pleasure of the moment for its own sake. Though Gilbert's solution may be nothing but a temporary escape from reality, the ecstatic plunge into an imaginary world is brave because it threatens to destroy his meticulously pieced-together life...
Annie Hall fans, be brave. After all, as the final fadeout made clear, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton were not meant for each other. Now Keaton has a new admirer, Hollywood heartthrob, Warren Beatty. When the pair went restaurant hopping in Beverly Hills, Supersnapper Ron Galella was on their trail in a flash. "This is a paparazzo attack," said Galella. "I'm not going to make it easy," retorted Beatty, and ordered Keaton to lower her head. Keaton, who had stayed in Los Angeles after winning her Oscar, then retreated to a recording studio to make her first album...