Word: die
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...summoning everybody to the sculptured dog that stands on guard at the front and center of a family plot. Wylie Cohn picks out a weather-blackened stone engraved with the two words: "Not Dead." Sucking his breath in a whistle, Wylie says, "He really didn't want to die...
...tell someone they're going to die...
...justification at all, or to give only sketchy proof. For example, he dismisses Eisenhower's refusal to grant clemency to the Rosenbergs in a single paragraph that begins, "The Rosenbergs got a fair trial; they were rightfully condemned; the president rejected their appeal for clemency and they must die." The didactic thought reads nicely--and might be 100 per cent wrong...
...William Holden still has the body of a 50-year-old. Or even less. Viewers can judge for themselves next fall when they watch Holden in The Earthling, a tale about an Australian bat-around-the-world who finally comes home to die. He stops along the way to take a beefcake bath-or in Holden's case, a sirloin splash-in an Australian stream. He also encounters Child Star Ricky Schroder (The Champ), who at nine has just lost mother and father in an automobile crash. What happens next is tearjerking. It also includes kangaroos and wallabies...
...only did she not cut her repertory during her years away from the U.S., she has added a new role: the Dyer's Wife in Strauss's Die Frau Ohne Schatten ("At last, a simple human being with every day problems, after always being a god dess or running around with somebody's cut-off head"). She will sing it for the first time in the U.S. next fall, with the San Francisco Opera. After that? Her one concession to the advancing years is that she is reluctant to make commitments very far ahead. "When managers...