Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baby must learn to talk. Patti has a terrible voice. But the rock instinct in this wiry, imp of a person has made that voice quite a tool, a very arousing and expressive voice so honest in what it is saying and how it is cowling that suddenly, you find cleavage. Besides, no one ever seriously suggested that a rock and roll star had to sing like Frank Sinatra. People like that belong at discos and behind TVs. Got tell Robert Zimmerman...
...nearly as large as the Sisters themselves: "OPEC realizes that it doesn't need the internationals any more. Smaller companies can go directly to the producing state." From a time not long ago when the Sisters all but ran the nations that sold them their oil, the companies now find themselves largely reduced to hired contractors that pump out the crude...
...demonstrated in his similar and wonderful The World of Henry Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them. Lane, a pretty refugee from Broadway's Runaways, is a completely unmannered actress who cuts to the guts of every scene; she is a major find. Though Bernard has too many punch lines and must speak in a second language, he rises to Lane's level by the end. The adults are just as good. Arthur Hill plays the same understanding stepfather he did in The Champ, but here he has the chance to bring...
...Thatcher is uncomfortably aware that many find her tones grating and self-righteous, and that her slick and expensive American-style campaign was compared unfavorably with the traditional and sober approach of Jim Callaghan--who disdained, as he put it, "to be packaged like cornflakes." She also knows that in a one-on-one, Presidential-style contest with Callaghan, she might have lost hands down: the same polls which showed large Tory leads also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing...
...year-old Tang, who will spend the next several days in Cambridge as the leader of a delegation of eight Chinese botanists, says he has come to Harvard to "find out what the science of botany will be like in the year...