Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation by controlling wages and prices, what it is really doing is asking all of us to suppress the bad news that it has printed too much money. The reason we have inflation is that since 1967 the Government has caused the money supply to grow three times as fast as the goods and services that can be bought with...
...alone into a stadium, basking in the cheers of a crowd saluting his solitary achievement. This time five runners burst in together, bunched as tightly as they had been when they started 2 hr. 12 min. earlier. The marathoners were kicking like milers; indeed, they were moving nearly as fast as the 1,500-meter finishers had an hour before. With about ten meters to go, Leonid Moseyev, 27, the Soviet and European champion, shot into first place on his final two strides. His winning time of 2:13:20 was equaled by the next two finishers; hundredths of seconds...
...young stars of A Little Romance, "since on a romantic level it's an adult movie." The initial problem seemed to be that Thelonious Bernard was very shy with Diane Lane. "It was mostly the language thing," says Hill (Thelo at first spoke almost no English, though he learned fast). To solve the chemistry problem, he says, "I made them hold hands and not break eye contact for ten minutes. Soon they started giggling, then arguing, and then breaking into gales of laughter." Thelo loosened up. And when Olivier was around, "it was almost like having three kids...
...childhood buddy ("You can't be friends with people who are not in the business; they are basically jealous"), and thinks that drugs and surfing, the normal amusements of rich, 15-year-old Los Angeles kids, are time wasters. "I think it is best that I grew up as fast as I did," she says. "I have a productive thing going. Those poor kids have nothing. Their parents leave them with maids...
...really an actress yet be cause she doesn't have the disciplines," says Barbara Claman, who has become a protective aunt to Linda. "But she's learning very fast." Linda works on dropping her accent. "I took a lesson in Southern, and all you have to do is draw out those words," she says. "I could do a middle-class kid, but I'll never be one. Maybe when I'm 95 and married." She will be 18 this month, but it is not just her 4-ft. 10-in. height that makes her seem younger; her emotions have only...