Word: ducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inability to maintain his religious faith is countered by Becky's decision to join the convent, a move that climaxes the sexual tensior that has been building all along. Ultimately, however, the play chooses not to become an issues-oriented forum, but as the upbeat "Best of Friends" duct suggests, a comic arena largely unconscious of conflict...
HOSPITALIZED. Frank Church, 59, four-term Democratic Senator (1957-80) from Idaho who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and ran for the presidential nomination in 1976; for a biopsy of a tumor in his pancreas and clearance of a bile duct; at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Church overcame testicular cancer while at Stanford Law School in the 1940s...
DIED. Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...
Another film about a pair of lovable oldies in the twilight of their days, starring two Hollywood legends who had never worked together before. Detect a trend here? From the same sentiments that poured forth On Golden Pond (box office to date: $118 million) comes another tear-duct wringer, called Right of Way, with Bette Davis, 74, and Jimmy Stewart, 74. In the made-for-cable TV movie, due out next year, Davis is stricken by a terminal illness, and Stewart, not wishing to continue alone, decides to end his life too. The match-up of the two stars seems...
...able to free one, a Bank of Rome safe, with acetylene torches and hoist it on board. They also solved a question that had long haunted Gimbel: Why had the ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room, squeezing through silt and broken steel plates until, astonished, they found themselves on the sea floor. The icebreaker bow of the Stockholm, Gimbel concluded, had simply "torn the guts out of the Doria" Several days later, expedition members, suffering from...