Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot concerns a high school guidance counselor and football coach (nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does not completely work, either as thriller or farce, mostly because Vadim insists on treating his actresses like so many rhinestones in the buff, but there are good supporting performances by John David Carson as Hudson's protege and Telly Savalas as a grimly ironic cop, some agile plot twists, and an abundance of savage little insights into affluent California adolescents. Pretty Maids All in a Row ought to have been...
Other maestros may prepare for a major performance by going over the score in solitude. Not Austria's white-maned Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 63-flyer, skier, yachtsman and fast-car buff. A few hours before the première of a Karajan-produced, Karajan-directed, Karajan-conducted Fidelio at Salzburg's Easter festival, he climbed into his souped-up Ford GT 40 and took on a twisting mountain road at speed. When he whined around a curve to face a juggernaut diesel on the wrong side of the road, Karajan took evasive action, turned the Ford over...
...revered as Babe Ruth was in the U.S. In the early 1960s the Red Chinese also moved into the top world ranks. Now some 100 million Chinese play the sport, and one plant in Canton alone produces 70,000 balls a day. Premier Chou Enlai, himself a buff, urges the Chinese to excel at table tennis in order to rid themselves of "that old inferiority complex toward the Westerners...
Over the past three seasons Johnson has compiled a list of track feats that would make any cinder buff proud. He holds the Bubble record in the 60-yard high hurdles with a time of 7.4 seconds. In the long jump, he has consistently earned team points in all dual meets, recording a 22'5 3/4" personal best last year...
...second cousin." A superwoman, health-food nut, and opera buff...