Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE is a hitch to Trypanis's generosity: Harvard has had to keep the grant tightly under wraps. It's not hard to guess why, but it is impossible to be sure of the reasons. Trypanis is vulnerable to adverse reactions from Greeks on a couple of points...
...leading roles. "There are sets that have been dismantled to make room for other ones, actors who have finished their work and left for heaven knows where," lamented the director. While police began an investigation, Italian reporters tried to estimate the size of the anticipated ransom demand. Best guess: $1.5 million...
...roaring." What is bad about this is that Sheed has not a shred of evidence that Ali's gifted father beat him up, as he must admit in the next sentence: "Whether Ali's childhood was like this, or anything like this, it would be impertinent to guess-and he isn't saying." This is the sort of guff that the English press writes on dull days: "Is Queen Elizabeth pregnant again? It would be impertinent to guess, and she's not saying...
...First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings, 'Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage...
...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...