Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direction and editing are smooth and competent, and the football scenes, with their low angle shots of huge players against the unrelieved blackness of the sky--take on a surrealistic quality that is shockingly enhanced by the crunch of bone and startling flashes of violence. The only element ignored by director Ted Kotcheff is the fans, who are never even glimpsed. Maybe it's just as well--you can only take so much of that decadent-Romans-drooling-over-the-slaves-being-eaten-by-lions stuff. But you can't help but feel that a whole dimension of professional sports...
...Robert Embry, 41, successfully guided Baltimore's redevelopment program from 1968 to the mid-1970s?using low-interest mortgages to attract middle-income residents to downtown and turning the blighted inner harbor area into a showplace of refurbished row houses and new businesses. He caught the eye of Carter, who appointed him Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As the Administration's point man on urban distress, one of the toughest jobs in town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG...
...reckoning, the ex-dictator's uncertain future would be cushioned by about $20 million (out of his $100 million fortune) that he had managed to stash outside the country. To American experts who have studied Somoza's corrupt regime, both estimates, however, appeared surprisingly low. Most valuations of the dynasty's holdings were between $500 million and $1 billion; they included Nicaragua's national air line, Lanica, its major shipping company, the Mamenic Line, perhaps 25% of its best farm land, and an array of other enterprises. Says Richard Millett, author of The Guardians...
...sour cream-topped baked potato for dinner Typical of the American lifestyle, such fatty, cholesterol-rich foods have long been cited by doctors as the primary cause of coronary artery disease, the nation's No. 1 killer. To keep the arteries unclogged, they have been urging a diet low in fats, stressing vegetables, poultry and fish over beef, eggs and dairy products...
...sure whether either of these theories will eventually replace the cholesterol-heart link. Most doctors still believe a combination of factors brings on heart disease, and will prudently continue to recommend low cholesterol diets, plenty of exercise and no smoking Warns Dr. William Castelli, director of the pioneering Framingham, Mass., heart studies: "If people think they can go out and eat all the hamburgers and hot dogs they want and be safe by taking vitamin B6, they're crazy...