Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not sell their Transamerica stock, may see an advantage there. "They are now in a position to go into the production end of the business," notes Beckett. That prospect is by no means definite, and the U.A. refugees are still considering several options. It would, however, afford the brilliant team a method of rewarding themselves handsomely and at the same time continuing their familial relationship with United Artists...
...early goal seemed to make the Bruins relax and Colorado took control, being foiled only by a brilliant Gerry Cheevers save on a power-play attempt and then by a post that kept the puck out when Cheevers lay sprawled...
Gregg Shephard had a breakaway attempt with the Bruins short-handed but Michelle Plasse foiled him with a brilliant save, picking his right leg off the ice in time to block a short Shephard shot with his thigh. In the last 60 seconds Rick Middleton almost made it 3-2 but his failure sent the game into the eventful final period...
...pianist is luckier than a singer. He can go on performing as long as his fingers maintain their strength and coordination. At 73, Vladimir Horowitz seems to be just as brilliant as when he first played the U.S. exactly 50 years ago. Last week in New York, the famed Ukrainian-born virtuoso celebrated the anniversary of that debut with some of the most electrifying music-making ever heard in Carnegie Hall, a hall that has had its share of excitement over the years...
DIED. Samuel Simon Leibowitz, 84, theatrical, quick-tongued lawyer who won the release of the "Scottsboro Boys," nine black Alabama youths convicted of raping two white women; of a stroke; in Brooklyn. The Rumanian-born lawyer won a reputation during the Prohibition era for his brilliant defense of such notorious criminals as Al Capone, the Mad Dog Killer, and the Bread Knife Murderess-he saved all but one of his 100 or so murder defendants from the electric chair. In 1933 Leibowitz, serving without a fee, took on the Scottsboro Boys, eight of whom had been sentenced to death. After...