Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them well. Nearly hobbled by her bleeding blister in Chicago, MacLaine took a shot of novocain, cut out the heel in her right shoe and completed her six-night sellout engagement at the Arie Crown Theater (4,500 seats). Her 80-minute bittersweet reflections on life ranged from a poignant rendition of Irma La Douce to an upbeat, gently self-mocking tune titled If There's a Wrong Way, Nobody Does It Like Me. Backed up by four dancers and a 25-piece band, she kicked, tapped, whirled and strutted her way flawlessly through a string of numbers. "When...
...interview with TIME (Feb. 14), he said: "Some years ago we had the vision to suggest a federation of Palestine and Jordan. Now maybe this plan can be looked at again." The King, of course, envisages two states, each with its own Parliament, united under his Hashemite crown. The Israelis were particularly cautious in their reaction to the Sadat proposal, arguing that they could not comment until they discussed its details with U.S. officials. Vance, however, told newsmen that Sadat's plan is "constructive. There appears to be a narrowing of the different positions, [though...
...fencers battle Yale this Saturday at the IAB. Yale is 2-2 in the Ivy League and the Crimson are 3-1. A victory against the Elis will insure Harvard a piece of the Ivy crown. "We will need a strong performance in all three weapons to beat Yale," Mandelbaum said...
...Crimson field-event entrants were a little healthier and, after their performance, a little happier than the runners. Chris Queen snared the shot-put crown with a 52 ft. 8 3/4 in. toss, while Geoff Stiles shuttled through space in the pole vault for his first victory against Princeton...
There Sakharov welcomes Western journalists to issue yet another appeal to world opinion for Soviet political prisoners. There he counsels and often gives needed sanctuary to other colleagues in dissent. Tall, stoop-shouldered, quick to smile, his gray hair a fringe around his bald crown, Sakharov looks, in these conversations, more like a genial professor holding forth at a home seminar than a man in the process of defying the world's most powerful Communist state. Indeed, the odds of winning his challenge seem so impossible that he sometimes calls himself, with self-deprecating humor, Andrei Blazhenny-a Russian...