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...Shah. In 1962 he led a general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year, then exiled to Turkey. He soon moved to the Iraqi city...
...right circumstances -- temperature in three digits, air conditioner broken, the tube showing tractor-pull-contest reruns, the dog under the bed with an attack of chiggers, marriage teetering, car defunct with black-lung disease and only one movie within walking distance -- Pink Cadillac is a tolerable summer-weight flick. Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters have a somewhat better time than the viewer, but they probably do in real life...
...more complete teams that I have coached in four years at Harvard," said Hafferty, who was especially proud of the way the two goalies, Karen Flick and Mel Berger, handled their jobs...
Watching Scott McCormack slice between defenders and deftly flick the puck past a sprawling goalie...
Valerie Nellen led the scoring with four goals and goalie Karen Flick shut out the opposition in the second period...