Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coldly Furious. The son of a South Carolina dirt farmer, Rivers was eight when his father died, and he knew poverty in his childhood. Rivers and his wife Margaret, parents of a son and two daughters, lived simply, maintaining a small brick house in McLean, Va., and a modest home in Charleston. For all his love of arms, Rivers never served in uniform. As he admitted, "I don't know squads-left from squads-right...
Manhattan's longest-running repertory theater and light-opera company, as well as its most exclusive, is located just off a modest brick courtyard west of Central Park. Its stage is the home of the gifted Standwells, whose repertory troupe combines high-comedy acting with stylish singing and sheer charm. They all sing, they all play the piano, and they all perform in everything from Shakespeare and Wilde to Viennese operetta and musical comedies. This month they began their eleventh consecutive season...
...late, you smoke a few joints, you get on your Honda and ride around to the PX, buy a few items you can sell on the black market, come back, blow some more grass, and that's it for the day." Rent for the second floor of a brick house rarely runs to more than $40 or $50 a month, including laundry and housekeeping services. Hustling is the name of the game here. This gives everyone plenty of money for anything from soul food at a restaurant called Nam's to hi-fi equipment, television sets or even...
...Manchurian Candidate, Seconds) were charged with an almost tangible visual energy, but recently his style has become so severely formal as to be almost academic. He is still capable of tour de force camera work (like a stunning crane shot that travels slowly across a deserted house, making every brick and notch of wood come alive for the eye) but then no one has ever quarreled with his technical vituosity. It is his story sense that has come increasingly into question...
Mead's design, which he calls the "inverse SST," is a study in the principles of low-speed aeronautics. Work in this field, according to Mead, is more challenging in a lot of ways than work on the "other" SST, since "you can make anything, even a brick, fly by giving it a lot of power...