Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Lucas represents a new force in Hollywood-moviemakers who received their training in the film schools, not the studios. With Francis Ford Coppola, 38, as elder statesman heading a core group of four directors, the new artisans form a tightly knit tribe, remarkably-Tree of fraternal competition. Together, they have almost taken over the industry. Coppola scored with The Godfather, Martin Scorsese, 34, with Taxi Driver, and Steven Spielberg, 30, with Jaws, the top-grossing film of all time. John Milius, 33, directed The Wind and the Lion and has written several scripts; Producer Gary Kurtz, 36, produced both...
...outside, bathroom, anywhere. Her father would fix him with an eye regarded in some New York financial circles as imperious, but betrayed only the stupidity of six generations of inbreeding, and would ask him a question and he would try to answer and sit back down. Finally, the elder DuPont asked him the clincher--What will you do with your life, young man? When Shapiro tried to answer he couldn't, because he knew something awful was going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write...
...right; it is possible that Seattle Slew could have gotten into the Kentucky Derby on his father's name, even if he had not won a lot of previous races. But who is the father of Seattle Slew's jockey? It is quite possible that the elder Cruguef has never been to the flats, even for the purpose of placing a friendly wager...
...RESULT of BBC's liberality and Galbraith's acknowledged position as elder philosopher and general social critic, Galbraith has considerable latitude in his choice of subject matter. The Book's start threatens to rehash the anecdotal biographic ramblings of Robert Heilbroner's The Wordly Philosophers, so familiar to Ec 10 veterans; the careful reader will learn of the romantic lives of thinkers from Marx to Veblen. By the close of the work Galbraith has looked at the problem of overpopulation the plight of the city, the multinational corporation, the normally UGE (the H is silent amythical, but representative corporate monster...
...most interesting aspects of the play was Thoreau's relationship with his idol and elder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. At one point in the play, Thoreau lambasts Emerson for not taking a stand against the Mexican War. Emerson sighs and says...