Word: embark
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...main character in I Ought to be in Pictures is once again the tough kid with a heart of gold--a more mature version of The Goodbye Girl's Quinn Cummings. Nineteen-year-old Libby Tucker (Dinah Manoff) decides to embark on an odyssey from Brooklyn to California, to find her screenwriter father who abandoned her 16 years earlier. She hopes to use his help to start--surprise, surprise--a career in show business. But Herb, her father, is not the successful writer she had expected and the road to riches is difficult. This opening sequence adequately conveys the disillusionment...
INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
...establish more realistic prices for the seven key commodities. In 1977, when Sadat tried to cut back the subsidies, bloody food riots broke out around the country. Nonetheless, the new government will try to tackle the problem again. Economics Minister Meguid says that the state is planning to embark on a food stamp program early next year that will continue subsidies for the poor and middle class but force the rich to pay the full price. Mubarak also said last week that he plans to direct al infitah toward more productive investment and away from the costly consumption of imported...
...American Repertory Theater (ART), Harvard's resident drama company, will embark on a 20-city tour October 22, Robert Brustein, the company's artistic director said yesterday...
...holidays in Eleuthera; Patrick and Nancy Robertson, an American couple whose son Lady Diana played nanny to in 1979 and 1980). Inevitably there are also a few conspicuous by their absence, like King Juan Carlos of Spain, who was miffed that the Prince and Princess of Wales chose to embark on their honeymoon cruise from Gibraltar, a British colony that the Spanish consider their...