Word: finest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other end of the ice, the Crimson's Brian Petrovek gave the customers what they came to see as well, matching Skidmore's dives with a few sprawls of his own in the finest Beanpot performance of his career...
...finest hour, of course, was Watergate, which it now finds hard to live up to. Watergate made folk heroes and millionaires out of Woodward and Bernstein, sent up Bradlee's ego when he saw Jason Robards' fine film portrayal of him in All the President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around...
...replied Fundamentalist Presbyterian Carl Mclntire. In his Christian Beacon, he offered an ingenious exegesis of the Cana account: "Jesus Christ never drank any fermented wine, neither did he ever make fermented wine. What Jesus did at the marriage of Cana was to make out of water the finest nonintoxicating wine that perhaps was ever made. The various combinations of the fruits of the vine can produce some delicious non-fermented drinks...
Gregory retired a year ago at 29 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). A shy, painstaking woman, she found the offstage demands of stardom nearly unbearable, especially after her marriage to A.B.T. Dancer Terry Orr collapsed. The dance world was stunned. Gregory is considered the finest American-trained ballet dancer, with a pure, elegant style that makes music and choreography flow together...
...Enforcer's plot is agonizingly similar to its predecessors. Big trouble is brewing in San Francisco and all of San Francisco's finest are unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints filed against him. Ninety minutes, umpteen bodies and two or three episodes of debauchery later, the case is solved and the Bay City is safe once again. The particulars vary from flick to flick (the enemies were crooked cops in Magnum Force, young revolutionaries in The Enforcers), but the cliched plot...