Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Days of Heaven, is the oldest of the lot at nearly 18, but she looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they are asked to do, these surprising children and their...
Vazquez, who is married and has one child, said his landlord is in the process of evicting him from his apartment because he is unable to pay the rent. Vazquez is unemployed for the summer because he recently broke his leg, he added...
...games were organized so that the Soviets have a better chance of gaming the finals, and of the 87 other nations, not all entered their top competitors. The U.S., for instance, sent only 109 athletes, of whom only eight are top-ranked in their event. Still, the U.S. broke into the winner's circle when Karen Hawkins, 22, of St. Louis took a silver in the 200-meter dash. Then the U.S. collected four gold medals in Spartakiad's first five days: Wardell Gilbreath, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, in the 200-meter dash; John Powell, 32, of Cupertino...
...poised at the steps of the dugout, a genuine study in genetic variation; the Orioles spoiling if not winning, but always getting the most out of a thin lineup; and Reggie Jackson is still dropping flies, complaining and getting thrown out of games. But the season of 1978 broke all precedents, and no one to knows what the standings mean in August 1979, and no one dares to imagine...
...once news of the mass resignations in the President's official family broke Tuesday afternoon, talk of import quotas, synthetic fuels and energy independence was drowned out by a new buzz of puzzled speculation. Early in the week congressional Democrats were talking about whooping through key parts of the President's program, including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation...