Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incumbent Gov. Dan Walker in the March primary, but this fall Howlett faces a very tough race against the Republican candidate: former U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson. Thompson is the reformer who has sent dozens of Daley's closest friends and associates to jail in recent years and the mere mention of his name is enough to make the Mayor and his henchmen apoplectic...
...emphasize the high quality of French technology, he arrived for his six-day Bicentennial visit aboard a sleekly beautiful Concorde SST that had flown from Paris in a mere three hours and 37 minutes (only two days afterward, the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the supersonic jet could begin commercial service to Dulles International Airport this week on a 16-month trial basis). His lissomely beautiful wife Anne-Aymone was a movable feast of French high fashion, showing off no fewer than 14 Diors, Chanels, Courrèges and the like during their brief...
Chester's rationale cannot be dismissed as mere puck passing. Only 22,000 saw the Chapman tragedy; today a man kicking dirt on the shoes of an umpire is seen by millions of viewers. University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, a former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised...
...discussed the matter at length "some time ago," Walters said yesterday. Walters argued that because of the small number of suicides each year, mere reporting of raw data might lead to identification of the person involved...
...significant details, and, most important, the film version transplanted virtually all the music to the cabaret sequences, heightening the contrast between the escapism of the Kit Kat Klub and the painful drama outside. If the play suffers from the blurring of these two worlds, however, it benefits from the mere fact that it is theater--that we, the audience, are immediately present as the audience of the Kit Kat Klub and as participants in the decadence it purveys...