Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while they are on Tromelin, they undoubtedly dream about the island's one famous resident: an 18th century female Robinson Crusoe who was washed ashore as the lone survivor of a shipwreck. She subsisted on food that floated in from the wreck, until a passing schooner spotted the bright yellow dress she had hoisted as a distress flag...
...Global Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...
Besides the skyscraper's towering stilts and bright aluminum sheathing, its most unusual feature is the angled wedge on top. It was originally designed to house luxury apartments-a plan that was dropped because the zoning laws were not advantageous. Then the bank hoped to use its southern-faced panels as a solar energy generator; it even got a $185,000 federal grant to study its feasibility. Given the state of the art, solar energy proved an impractical undertaking for the moment-though there is a possibility that in two years or so the cheeky wedge will be producing...
When the film begins, it is 1962 and Pauline (Valerie Mairesse) is a slightly overweight, optimistic 17 year old who wears traditional schoolgirl clothes, carries a bookbag, and lets her bright red ponytail bounce from side to side as she sings in the school choir. Her friend Suzanne (Therese Liotard) is thin, withdrawn, feels like she's 100, and is really only 22. She and her photographer boyfriend have two children and no money, and are expecting an abortion...
Despite the disappointing loss there was at least one bright spot for Harvard. Guard Tamar Atinc shot four-for-nine as she came off the bench to spark the lagging Crimson offense with outside buckets in the second half...