Word: edd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grease would be a better movie if Stigwood and Carr had stuck to the basics. They have compiled a fairly impressive group of retread stars to make the era complete; Eve Arden plays Rydell High's Principal McGee, Joan Blondell is Vi, the confidante/waitress type, Edd Byrnes does a good job as Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, and Sid Caesar is a good fascist coach Calhoun. Of course, Sha-Na-Na is there too, as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, and "everyone's favorite '50s group...
...various pop-culture icons of the '50s (Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Edd Byrnes, Frankie Avalon) are given nothing to say or do that is worthy of them. Still, the little shocks of recognition we feel as they make their initial appearances provide the only fleeting moments of life in a movie that has as its true subject a bygone style but is utterly devoid of that quality itself...
...stood for the union; walked in the line. Fought against the company. I've stood for the U.M. W. of A. Now who's gonna stand for me? -From a Billy Edd Wheeler song
...Maronite Christian Chief Executive finally agreed to step down. His successor must be one on whom all factions can agree, and one, moreover, acceptable to neighboring Syria. That might boost the chances of Elias Sarkis, quiet governor of Lebanon's central bank, while dampening those of Centrist Raymond Eddé, an outspokenly antiright wing and anti-Syrian parliamentarian...
...Ph.D. is Education was important when the Ed School was oriented toward professional training o teachers and school administers, White said, because it allowed students to explore more academic questions in education than they could have in the school's EDD program. But he added that "over the last few decades more and more people interested in academics are showing up at the Ed School...