Word: lubbock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Renoir himself)--the movie ultimately demonstrates all their limitations. Renoir blows the form of romantic comedy apart, constructing a work of great subtlety and complexity, which in the starkness of its vision conveys the difficulties of finding viable way to live in bourgeois society. But will it play in Lubbock...
...Empress, who in exile has become his rock and his shield, screens out the importunate. One welcome arrival last week, however, was Crown Prince Reza, 18, their oldest son, who had won his pilot's wings after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...
DIED. Franklin Alton Wade, 75, geologist on Admiral Richard Byrd's two historic Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s; in Lubbock, Texas. Wade narrowly escaped falling into a crevasse and endured serious frostbite while charting the geological history of Antarctica. Describing the latter calamity, Byrd wrote, "Wade was certainly a shocking sight ... his face grossly swollen, the right eye tightly puffed under puffy lids. He looked exactly as if he had stuck his head in a hornet's nest ... No one had seen a worse case of frosting...
...loud, hard-driving music notwithstanding, The Buddy Holly Story is at heart a very old-fashioned film. As Robert Gittler's fictionalized script follows Holly's rise from obscurity in Lubbock. Texas, to national superstardom, it embraces all the romantic clichés of showbiz success sagas. Holly (Gary Busey) leaves behind his suffocating small-town girlfriend (Amy Johnston) to seek the bright lights of New York; he overcomes early rejection to become the toast of the record industry; he outgrows his original back-up musicians (Don Stroud. Charlie Martin Smith) and creates a revolutionary new sound...
Smokers can take heart from the 300,000-member organization PUFF (People United to Fight Frustrations), founded last fall by Richard Arnold of Lubbock, Texas. Arnold, who owns two restaurants, gave up smoking three months ago, thinks the habit is harmful and recommends that smokers put out cigarettes "as a common courtesy" if the smoke is bothering anyone. He refuses donations from the tobacco industry because PUFF is not interested in promoting smoking, only the right to smoke...