Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolution simply by painting it with the same colors that he uses for any other tyranny. He tells of a waiter turned terrorist who becomes a police interrogator and lives in a confiscated mansion. He recalls famous escapes, such as the two men who stowed away in the landing gear of a plane flying to Spain. (One of them fell out during the journey but the other arrived eight hours later, half-frozen.) The case that the book builds is guilt by association: the Cuban revolution rose out of a tradition of violence and has perpetuated...
Whitlock said that he and the general counsels office "are going into high gear to extend deadlines in each case where it is possible to include women this year." Most of the deadlines will probably be extended until April...
Mercury writes most of the songs and sets the outrageously sexual onstage style. That includes not only his lyrics but also the tight, satiny gear. "I'm thinking of being carried onstage by Nubian slaves and being fanned by them," Mercury tells interviewers. "In fact, I'm holding auditions now-but where to find a slave?" Parents groan, kids applaud, a new rock superact is born...
Colleagues say Korda is fond of role playing. After the opening of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, friends found him playing the sergeant major. Once he strode into a sales convention in full fox-hunting gear, blowing a hunting horn and proceeding to present a book on the Maryland hunting set. Says one associate: "It was not humor. It was Korda's chance to display his sense of costume and class...
...undisputed showcase for New England basketball talent. A number of pro teams, including the Rockets, Knicks and Bullets, will have scouts at courtside. The result of the second Harvard-B.C. hoedown should definitely lend focus to the season to come as Ivy competition gets into high gear, since both teams' inconsistent performances to date resemble the fever chart of a malaria victim...