Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...garish, mindless popular culture? John Williams has composed his worst and most blatantly derivative score, and among the actors, Brando is inexcusably wasted as Superman's father-saint, and Gene Hackman is embarrassing as the campy villain--is it possible that this once-gripping character actor has lost every drop of style he ever possessed, or was he just miscast in a role that cried out for a polished ham (a Brando, an Olivier, a George C. Scott)? Only Christopher Reeve radiates from within...
...still so powerful, in fact, that he even had the temerity to file suit for $51 million against Don Bolles's widow, charging her with defamation of character for her lawsuit accusing Marley of ordering the Bolles killing; out of court, Marley succeeded in persuading Mrs. Bolles to drop her lawsuit in exchange for his doing the same...
King said that by making it illegal for teenage drivers to drink, accident rates should drop throughout the state. The new motor vehicles head. Cambridge resident Richard E. McLaughlin, is a staunch supporter of the higher drinking...
Nevertheless, a U.S. embassy spokesman said yesterday about 4000 Americans are expected to leave Iran in the next few days and that the total number of Americans in the country will drop to 25,000 from the 45,000 in Iran before the violent riots erupted three months...
...days later, Harvard turned in a fine performance against a superb Stanford team, only to drop a 49-42 halftime advantage as Stanford ripped off a 27-2 burst in the opening minutes of the second stanza...