Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, she is agile and relaxed, and does not seem particularly out of place either up against the affectless cool of Bill Cosby or the brush-fire intensity of Harvey Keitel, who is among the best young actors around...
...time Berlinguer had finished, the rally had quieted down and there were no further incidents. But the heated exchange with Rossi and the close brush with a real disturbance had shown how taut Italian political nerves are these days-and how far the Communists' appeal for unity among the parties has to go before it becomes a reality...
...Coast promoter and part-time Barnum named Bill Sargent has offered the group $50 million for a reunion. Said Paul: "The only way the Beatles would come together is if we wanted to do something musically." The others say nothing. It has been this way since the group disbanded, brush fires of hope fanned a little, then stamped...
From the moment he saw his first big top as a boy, Vargas' obsession was to have one of his own. After marking time as a Fuller Brush salesman and working for the Chicago zoo, in 1972 he bought a small circus that had no tent -a failing he corrected a year later. Says he: "I was starting from virtually nothing, but I knew what I wanted...
...Democrats may yet find hidden reserves of political resiliency. "I don't believe that this is a death agony," says Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. He points out that the party has survived other crises, including, in 1960, a short-lived flirtation with an alliance with neo-Fascists and a brush with civil disorder after the police fired on a crowd of demonstrators. Says Ferrarotti: "These comebacks show that there is an underlying resiliency. With an uncanny ability to reconcile opposing and contrasting positions in its own ranks, the party not only survived but came out on top." Whether...