Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Kissinger's panel of thesis readers apparently found his magnum opus acceptable, the 383 page record-breaking volume--even without the excised portions--provoked the government department to put a ceiling on the number of pages an undergraduate thesis could...
Robert Bell, a security guard, went to visit his mother's house in South Baltimore. He took with him his girl friend and her two boys, aged three and six. He also took along his .357-magnum pistol. He placed it in his mother's dining room cabinet...
...Lucius W. Nieman Fellows for 1976-77 will be: Robert J. Azzi, photojournalist with Magnum, Incorporated; Tony Castro Jr., a reporter for The Houston Post; Rodney W. Decker, a columnist and editorial writer for The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah; Melvin M.S. Goo, editorial writer for the Honolulu Advertiser; Kathryn Johnson, news reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta...
...experience he craves, but what he finds disgusts him. A passenger (played by Scorsese) describes to Travis the .44 magnum holes he will make in his adulterous wife's body, and through it all Travis is expected to stare straight ahead. The camera cuts between the back of his neck, to which the passenger speaks, and Travis's face, which reflects a mixture of horror and fascination. Prostitutes fellate businessmen in his cab--Travis's role is to remain oblivious, and, at the end of the night, to clean the semen stains off the back seat...
Clearly, Rosovsky is determined to produce another Redbook. But in a departure from Conant's example, he has consciously chosen not to hinge his magnum opus on the work of a prestigious group of wise men. "We avoided that from the very beginning, we don't operate that way," Rosovsky says, even though he specifically mentioned creating a "blue-ribbon" panel in his February 1974 announcement. By creating the task forces, Rosovsky says, he hoped to gather as many ideas as possible ("they are one of the hardest things to get") and to develop a broad base of support...