Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam movie, The Deer Hunter, Director Michael Cimino's story of young Ukrainian-American steelworkers from Clairton, Pa., who play pool, drink beer, watch football on TV, get drunk at a wedding, hunt deer and then go off to fight the war in 1972. It was the fifth Oscar for The Deer Hunter that night. The audience could only guess at the complexities of feeling that ricocheted around John Wayne's mind as he handed over the prize...
...happy news about Love on the Run, Frangois Truffaut's fifth autobiographical Antoine Doinel movie, is that Antoine still refuses to grow up. Though the director's alter ego has come far since he first appeared 20 years ago in The 400 Blows, he remains a hopelessly restless, love-hungry kid. Antoine will badger, beg and lie to win a woman's affection, only to discover over and over that his hunger is not satiated by each new conquest. As a pal tells him this time, "All you care about is boy meets girl; from there...
...Tommy's principal at the Edgebrook Elementary School: "He is the kind of child a teacher dreams of having once in a lifetime. But now that we have him, we don't know what to do with him." The Irwins received permission to enroll Tommy, now a fifth-grader, in a Spanish class at McHenry High School, but even that permission was soon revoked after the board of education expressed concern about "establishing a precedent...
...varsity eight took the San Diego race, which featured the nation's top collegiate crews, by 4.4 seconds over California and by 11.9 seconds over the fifth-place Bruins...
Brown's outing on the mound progressed from a self-indulgent start to a rather paranoid finish. The all-American held Penn scoreless through the first four frames and retired 13 consecutive batters without a hit before the Quakers notched four with two outs in the fifth...