Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lot of times tragedy permanently granitizes the athlete at the top of the mountain. One need look no farther than baseball's Roberto Clemente or auto racing's Peter Revson as examples of what A.E. Housman was trying to say in "To an Athlete Dying Young" when he penned "Now you will not swell the rout/Of lads who wore their honor...
...trade, while 28 private exporting companies dominate the rest of the market in high-quality beans. The nation's 130,000 backlot growers cannot afford soaring prices for fertilizers, fungicides and equipment. Except in Central America and Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub) still get less than $2.73 for a full day of picking coffee berries, no more than before prices rose-though some have made enough profit to retire for the rest...
...hair and an I.Q. of about 103") grows up to be a skyjacker and a fugitive Marxist. Her resemblance to Patty Hearst can hardly be coincidental. Charlotte's second husband is also a familiar type out of the recent past-a successful San Francisco lawyer who travels a lot, defending Black Panthers and arranging arms deals for urban guerrillas. When someone at a party asks Charlotte what he does, she replies characteristically, "He runs guns, I wish they had caviar...
...Dunnes' up-and-down marriage -chronicled by both writers in magazine pieces-has not interfered with a creative collaboration. Their most recent effort, the script for A Star Is Born, earned them $150,000 plus a percentage of the gross profits. "It should make us a lot of money," predicts Dunne. "In fact," says Didion, "we saw it basically as a picture about money...
...holding power of the dialogue and the situations he is covering. And well he might be. Whether from left or right, there is something terribly predictable about the way Mother Kusters' tormentors reveal their duplicity. The film makes all the right comments about what is wrong with a lot of things these days, but it does not speak very artfully about these matters - except when Actress Mira's eyes are allowed to do its thinking, and its talking...