Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media craze for sexy, older women. It is impossible to gauge exactly to what degree viewer appetite is being served, as opposed to how much is being created, but the sudden torrent of praise for older women brings to mind a statement by the late Flannery O'Connor. "To the hard of hearing, you shout and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures...
Linda O'Connor Van Nuys, Calif...
...unforgettable photograph: about a second earlier, Wayne Turner has given the Northeastern hockey team its first Beanpot in 28 tries. The film captures Turner behind the net, up on his toes, arms raised, waiting for his teammates to mob him. The losing Boston College goalie, Bob O'Connor, having flopped to the ice, looks behind him, where the puck and teammate Paul Hammer are both in the net. And O'Neil, a freshman winger, skating past the goal a little too late, is about to smash his stick in frustration across the goalpost. The picture ran on the cover...
...personnel choices that would leave the deepest imprint on the U.S. for many years to come would involve the Supreme Court. Reagan so far has named only one Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, but he might be able to nominate several more during a second term. Aides believe he has already settled on three appointments: Clark (whether or not he has become White House chief of staff in the interim), Meese, and William French Smith, probably in that order. All are highly conservative and, if confirmed, might do more to enshrine the New Right's social issues agenda...
...continental shelf, the sloping underwater strip of land at a continent's edge. The Federal Government has traditionally controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have estimated there may be as much as 1 billion bbl. of oil in the entire basin. The sections had initially been freed...