Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...character parts, the aunts Charlotte and Albertine and sisters Denise and Monique, come as close as they can to stealing the show. Nora Seton and Lisa Beach as the cat-fighting old biddies successfully carry off the humor and hopelessness combined in their roles. Elise O'Shaughnessy gets a few good laughs out of her character, drooling alternately for mince pies and her brother and ultimately confusing the two. Amy Gutman delivers a frighteningly taut performance as the paranoid addict, Monique. In her long speeches the ragged nerves almost show in the lights...
...When I get to the big meets, I close my eyes and go through what a good vault should be to get psyched," he added...
Stiles stressed the importance of concentration while vaulting but also noted some dangerous possible consequences: since he spends the first half of his run looking down, he has more than once come close to impaling people wandering across the runway...
Last week, after a journey of 18 months, a tiny visitor from earth streaked precariously close to the giant of the solar system, penetrating deep into Jupiter's powerful magnetic field and coming within 278,000 km (172,400 miles) of the Jovian cloud tops. Back at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab, controllers waited breathlessly to see whether the plucky robot would survive that dangerous encounter. But even before Voyager 1 made its closest approach on Monday, the 826 kg (1,820 lb.) unmanned spacecraft sent home a trove of new findings about Jupiter, including evidence that...
Clearly, Chrysler needs a lift. It lost $204.6 million in 1978, even though it earned $43 million in the fourth quarter, entirely from nonautomotive businesses. All automakers except General Motors plan a series of temporary plant closings this month to reduce bulging dealer inventories, but Chrysler's is by far the largest shutdown. Four of its five domestic auto plants and one that makes trucks and vans will close for at least a week, idling about 20,000 workers. Says Iacocca of the switches amid shutdowns: "We have to get profitable, we have to carve out a niche...