Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds is soon offering aid and comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
...seems strange now, from the vantage-point of the Pill amd of the "sexual revolution" and also of all the human distress that has accompanied the present era of family breakups, to look back on this other dream of marital eroticism. Such a daring dream, really, or at any rate one of great challenge--or foolishness. To dream that we were back with Dorothy in Kansas when in fact we were watching Mick Jagger get his first guitar; when Kansas itself was already changing, subtly, beneath the surface; when in fact everything was changing, getting ready to change, bursting forward...
...Bobby Lowe, now 28, those stark moments of recognition in 1972 had led to a five-year tale of personal distress, fear of Mafia reprisals, and courage that came to a dramatic climax last week in the Cook County criminal court in Chicago. Lowe was the star witness in a case brought by county prosecutors against Harry ("the Hook") Aleman, 38, one of the most feared hit men in the Chicago Mafia. Police suspect that Aleman was involved in 22 murders, including one in which the victim was ripped three times through the neck with a broomstick. But none...
Some mobsters have tried to win Galante's favor by turning over their businesses to him at distress-sale prices. In one deal, he scooped up the betting and loan-shark rackets in Pennsylvania Station, which net at least $500,000 a year. Other mobsters, including some nominally under Dellacroce, sold Galante a number of Manhattan sweatshops in which black and Hispanic women, many working at less than $3 an hour (the union scale is $4.81), stitch garments that are sold in legitimate clothing stores across the country. Authorities
...quite clearly, the strategy of his-and-her vacations, so often recommended for, and sometimes even beneficial to, marriages in distress. There was Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau slipping down the snowy slopes and flipping off the diving board at Utah's Snowbird mountain resort. And there was Wife Margaret, tripping through Boston's Logan Airport, her three young children in tow, on a visit to her sister in Winchester, Mass. Earlier, the P.M. had made a pilgrimage to that shrine sought by every world statesman-California's Disneyland. "My kids would have loved to see this...