Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grant dined with Queen Victoria, discussed war with Bismarck, and noted, with eerie precognition, the sorry history of colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The triumphal trip was not enough to catapult him back into office for the third term he sought in 1880. Still, his peculiar luck held. James Garfield, who won, was assassinated just months after Inauguration...
...match's premier event saw Howard Sands, number-one player, confronting Andy Garfield. Comparable styles of conservative play highlighted the match. Not ones for flashy shots, the players concentrated on smooth polished playing and consistent ball control. Aggresive playing on Sands part, however, made the difference, and he emerged with...
NOTEBOOK: Controversy has surrounded the college career of Columbia's number - one player Andy Garfield, Garfield, a junior, is currently in his first year of intercollegiate play due to an NCAA ruling that Garfield's signing a pro-circuit contract two years ago made him ineligible. This year, Garfield appealed and that decision was overruled on the grounds that Garfield never accepted money while playing on the pro-circuit--since he never...
...film dispenses with the machismo verismo of Luchino Visconti's 1942 Ossessione and the platinum-blinded glitz of the 1946 version starring John Garfield and Lana Turner to concentrate on a purposefully paced retelling of Cain's story. It means to calibrate every movement in the desperate mating dance of Frank and Cora, "these unspeakably stupid, very simple people, filled with guile and tenderness." That is Director Rafelson's phrase, spoken without contempt for his characters but with an understanding of their selfish, consuming needs. Though Nick's café is just a short drive from...
...role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...