Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turbulent mid-Manhattan headquarters of Liberty Weekend, one figure remains noticeably calm: veteran Producer David Wolper, the ringmaster of the four-day jubilee. Although besieged by last-minute problems and battered by criticism, Wolper, 58, relies on the experience of his 37 years and 160 awards in the entertainment world to steady his nerves. "If you go into these things thinking it's going to be a Pollyanna situation, you won't survive," he observes. Nevertheless, the strain shows. After six months as Liberty Weekend chairman, creating a celebration that is part official, part spectacular and totally public, his normally...
...handily won a second term in office, the scene was almost tranquil. Fewer than 200 supporters gathered outside the same election headquarters in the Palace Hotel, and only one, a woman clutching a fistful of red roses, shouted the old political war cry, "Felipe, Felipe! Felipe Presidente!" The postelection calm was briefly broken Wednesday when a bomb exploded in checked luggage at the Madrid terminal of El Al, the Israeli airline, injuring 13 people, two of them seriously...
...morning was calm and clear--a perfect day for aerial sightseeing over the Grand Canyon. But by 9:30, 25 tourists had perished after two aircraft collided in midair about one mile south of the gorge's north rim. There were no survivors...
...thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...been talking about you." He begins to tell her about the speech, but his mother interrupts, talking furiously in Italian. Cuomo translates for a reporter. Three women had been murdered the day before in Brooklyn. Animals, she calls the killers; they deserve to die. The Governor manages to calm her, then says an affectionate goodbye in Italian...