Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gift for camera placement and movement, lighting, editing and the care and feeding of actors. But he is also a compulsive teller of stories about himself as he once was and still is. Each new film he directs or oversees is like another chapter in the autobiography of a modern Peter...
...walking away (at 25, four years ago)," he murmured, after Naturalized American Kevin Curren of South Africa overwhelmed him in three curt sets. "It's difficult not to be No. 1," McEnroe says. He felt "overpowered," not so much by Curren personally as by circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find...
...from 1949 to 1968 who raised its national ranking from 15th to third in number of top-rated graduate programs; of cancer; in Woodside, Calif. A historian at the California Institute of Technology who was a regular cbs radio news commentator in the 1940s, Sterling became Stanford's major modern builder, heading record-shattering fund drives ($300 million in 1972-77), increasing operating expenditures from $10 million annually to $108 million, expanding the faculty by 170% and the student body...
...that celebrates or serves gods, priests and lords, some of the lively figurines found on the island of Jaina mirror the life of ordinary folk. One peasant woman jauntily waving a big conical hat will look strikingly familiar to anyone who has visited the wretchedly poor Maya villages in modern Yucatan...
Throughout his three-month effort to take over CBS, Ted Turner, the owner of Cable News Network, has projected himself as a modern David battling a broadcasting Goliath. Now it appears that Turner will need more than one well- aimed rock to bring down CBS. Last week the company hurled back a tough rejoinder, offering to buy 21% of its stock for $955 million, or $150 a share. Speaking to stock analysts in a Manhattan studio where the soap opera As the World Turns used to be filmed, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman announced that the company will give stockholders...