Word: bunche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work began when, as a sophomore. Rosegrant adopted an eight-year-old girl named Christina through the PBH Big Brother Big Sister program. She admits to having been skeptical about working for the 92-year-old community organization. "I thought PBH people were going to be a bunch of annoyingly wishy-washy, do-good type of people. But it was just the opposite." From there, her social work snowballed into heading committees, raising $30,000 for a summer youth program and spending late nights at shelters for the homeless. Later she was elected president of Phillips Brooks House--the largest...
...bunch of as were invited to join a fraternity after we moved into Lowell House," says Dower "But we didn't--we felt we had an obligation to make the House system work...
...stars, notably Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, still pack large concert halls. Other musicians who were earning as much as $25,000 a night are now getting $8,500. All this has hog-tied Nashville's style. Says Tandy Rice, the chairman of the Top Billing booking agency: "A bunch of artists rushed out to buy big, fancy buses during the boom, and I think Nashville may become the biggest used-bus city in the nation...
DIED. Edmond O'Brien, 69, stocky, heavy-jowled, Academy Award-winning actor who played tough guys in such film noir classics as The Killers (1946), A Double Life (1948) and D.O.A. (1950), and who later had memorable character roles in Seven Days in May (1964) and The Wild Bunch (1969); of Alzheimer's disease; in Inglewood, Calif. He won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his portrayal of a sycophantic Hollywood press agent in 1954's The Barefoot Contessa...
...only reason I drink is so that people won't think I'm a dope fiend." Dillon has mastered the nurturing mother figure and Torn, perhaps the most flexible film actor around, fully mines this caricature of unprincipled greed. The rest of the cast seems to be a merry bunch of natural role-players and con men; the rare awkward line is pardonable...