Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before Hollywood, she was worried that her life was too good. "My work, everything has gone so well," she says. "I feel guilty about this sometimes. I feel the pendulum will swing back and I will be penalized for my good luck. There is a destiny. I think the life I am leading has to have a conclusion, and I think that conclusion will be bad." She sometimes predicts that she will finish her life paralyzed or crippled, old and alone and above all unloved, with nothing but her books to keep her company. Perhaps it is in hopes...
...those two were one, should never be that awfully certain of itself again. Who can quarrel with Halberstam here? The danger may be that, given the notorious wide swings of the American pendulum, the next phase will be corrosive self-doubt and excessive withdrawal from the world. With luck, though, the loss of hubris may lead to a new realism without fatigue or despair...
...combination of luck and hard campaigning won a Louisiana Senate seat for J. Benneff Johnston Jr., 40, a Shreveport lawyer and former state senator. His good fortune occurred in July after Senator Allen J. Ellender died suddenly at 81. Johnston, who had already filed as Ellender's Democratic primary opponent, easily won the nomination. Former Governor John McKeithen, 54, attempted to become a late-starting Democratic candidate but was barred by the party. McKeithen waged an emotional campaign as an independent. But Johnston neatly sloughed off his charges that he was a "country club kid" to defeat "Big John...
...LUCK O' THE Irish" and a sense of inevitable victory pervaded the Statler-Hilton ballroom as supporters watched the precinct-by-precinct progress of "our Joey's" challenge to Hicks. Moakley and his supporters were rolling in four-leaf clovers by the end of the night as official election returns confirmed his victory...
...birth, Bronson played a lot of character roles in movies like The Great Escape before becoming a star in Europe, where his poignant struggle with polysyllables is presumably lost in translation. The Valachi Papers, shot almost totally in Rome, is in English, a bad break for Bronson, worse luck for the scenarist and the rest...