Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes them less than uproarious. Jack Lemmon plays Wendell Armbruster Jr., a harried cliche of an executive, a Baltimoron whose morals are romantically updated in the course of the film. Armbruster flies to Italy to claim the body of his father the conglomerate chief, who had driven off a cliff during his annual convalescence at a resort south of Naples. But Wendell learns, to his dismay, that his nearly seventy-year-old father had led a ten-summer secret Amalfi life and died intertwined with Kate Piggott, mother of Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills)--a British "bird" who's come...
...highway. Certain that he would be killed, his immediate concerns were for his new coat (which he could see ripping as he rolled) and the Michigan football team, which according to the car radio was losing to Minnesota. In another case, a child of eight slipping off a cliff was afraid he would lose the new pocketknife his father had given...
...outplayed Harvard in both halves," a disconsolate Brown coach Cliff Stevenson said in the losers' lockrroom. "We played an excellent game, and had the opportunities, but couldn't put them in," he added. Sometimes, the ball bounces the other way. HENRY SIDEROPOULOS...
...thrown into the seat in front of me. Then the windows started crashing down on top of me. The floor was gone, and people were screaming for help." Thus Cliff Retis, 23, described the horror of last week's commuter-train collision in Chicago in which 44 people were killed and 350 injured. A train of new double-decker cars overshot a flag-stop station four miles from the Illinois Central commuter terminal in the Loop and began backing up to the platform. Apparently a following train of heavy older cars was not properly warned. The lead coach...
...crowd 'at Weeks' headquarters at the White Cliff resort in Plymouth was indicative of the kind of campaign Weeks has run. The crowd was gentile, mannered, and polite. To call it an upper-income group would be a ridiculous understatement...