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Word: cliffes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost in the roiling water. Then Lewis spills out in rapids and suffers a bad break in his leg. It is up to Ed, the most hesitant of them, to save Bobby and the crippled Lewis. To do this, he must become an animal, beginning by scaling a high cliff and killing the mountaineer who may be waiting for them in ambush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rites of Passage | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Missouri house of representatives to give full amnesty to Cole, Jesse and their assorted brothers and buddies. The house speaker, bribed by the railroad, decides that the entire motion is out of order. This sits fine with Jesse (Robert Duvall), who fancies his "guerrilla raids," but Cole (Cliff Robertson) wants the pardon. To raise money for a counter-bribe to the speaker, the gang sets off to rob a bank in the small town of Northfield, Minn. Cole knows for a fact that the money is waiting for them inside the vault. He has seen it in a vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Made of Myth | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...bodies lie in tangled clusters, rotting in the sun. To the south and west, the rolling countryside is half-blackened by fire. In one mountain village, Rotoru, only five people are still alive; an army patrol shot down the women and children and pushed the men over a cliff. In the northern part of the country, a white schoolteacher remarks that he is reluctant to turn his back on his classes to write on the blackboard "because I'm afraid that somebody will be dead when I turn around again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURUNDI: Revenge of the Tutsis | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...does with deliberation in its policy of budgetary non-disclosure: tactically rationing information. Decisions about budget allocations or investment policy are reached, we are told, by a mysterious but preeminently rational process. Criticism, groping in the dark, is offered a helping hand just after it has fallen off the cliff. A tactical reply to this procedure, of course, is to produce ever more detailed alternatives to those proposed by the University, thereby forcing it to reveal the contraband information in the course of its rebuttal--or else demonstrate its lack of the proverbial good faith in bargaining...

Author: By Steven E. Levy, Wesley E. Profit, and Charles F. Sabel, S | Title: Getting Off Without a Conviction: Harvard's Killings in the Market | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

...Coop (Cliff Robertson) is a rodeo rider who has spent the better part of a decade in stir, serving his time while winning points for the prison rodeo team. Now that he is outside again, he finds that things have changed. He returns home to discover both the old place and his old Ma (Geraldine Page) have suffered something of a decline. Hippies are abroad in the land-even in Texas. Top hands fly to rodeos in private planes and talk about their brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Overreacher | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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