Word: lanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hash-out between players and officials after the game, it was found that the slips incurred by both the Eracondos-Lan Chile combination team and the North Miami squad were limited to players whose shoes had high hard cleats which kept the sole line of their shoes above the grass...
...Vietnam has been a failure of visualization. It has been too easy to develop a seven o'clock news mentality that agonizes only thirty minutes a day. So Coutard particularizes circumstances and thus humanizes them. Hung is a kind of Vietnamese Huck Finn, and the acting of young Phi Lan in that role is completely sympathetic...
...With customary élan, the police joined the fray. Captain Daniel McGowan of the Public Morals Task Force was assigned to the new post of "Director of Prostitution Control." Patrols in the area were beefed up with plainclothesmen borrowed from the gambling detail and men of the mobile Tactical Patrol Force, many armed with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established...
...other European Women's Lib movements do not equal the élan of the Dutch, they all agree on a list of basic goals. To a woman, they demand liberalization of divorce and abortion laws, more widespread dissemination of information on birth control, more effective enforcement of equal-pay-for-equal-work laws (throughout Europe, men often earn 20% to 30% more than women). But each country has individual problems...
...Doors hassle over a similar scene last year in Miami is probably a good deal more than coincidental. Cold Iron is a cool little novel about the rock scene, one of the few written with an obvious insider's authority and a fan's élan...