Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...A.C.C. mayhem is scheduled to end this week with the annual tournament to decide the conference's automatic representative in the N.C.A.A. championships. The fans are already atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges. Predictably, the team that went into the tourney with the best record has wound up losing the event ten times in its 25-year run. The pain of defeat is not as great as it once was, however, since the N.C.A.A. recently has been inviting two A.C.C. teams...
Though in the end he is the one who over sees her rehabilitation and organizes her comeback, it is Benson's early work as a decent but painfully groping adolescent that most offers us the pleasures of honestly observed characterization...
Cher. Just Cher. No Bono, no Allman at the end. That is the way in which one-half of one of Hollywood's most successful husband and wife teams has legalized her name after two bad marriages. And that is the way she will be billed in a March 7 NBC special, Cher ... and Other Fantasies. The concept is weak, but her 31 costumes and 22 wigs are dizzying. She appears as a slithery snakess and in a bare-belly ensemble which makes Cher resemble Ms. Tutankhamun. But perhaps the best is one in which she lounges like...
...Lindsey's book The Late Great Planet Earth sold more than 10 million copies. The semidocumentary movie made from it, with Narrator Orson Welles rumbling warnings that the world may be coming to an end, is currently among the top ten moneymakers out of Hollywood. Why the success of an apocalyptic message? "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times," says Historian Christopher Lasch. "Impending disaster has become an everyday concern...
Some scholars think that this kind of writing may be a reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...