Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freshman football introductory meeting. It's a frightening experience when 100 of your fellow classmates show up for this meeting. But even more scary is that freshman coach Chet O'Neil probably already had his starting eleven picked out for both offence and defense. Nobody is looking--why don't you hang up the spikes before you spend the whole fall on the sidelines? However, if you have aspirations of sitting on the varsity bench one day, you must start gathering splinters this season...
...change-especially since I've said such bad things about actors," chuckled Author Truman Capote, trying to explain why he had signed up for his first movie role ever. Capote, the scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness and Elsa Lanchester. Has the author of In Cold Blood finally changed his mind about thespian intelligence...
...singer-songwriter delivers more than the single annual LP required by the seven-year agreement, he can earn up to $24 million. The largest parcel handed out yet by a record company, Wonder's contract is worth as much as the Elton John ($8 million) and Neil Diamond (about $5 million) deals combined. Motown's announcement is strategically timed. There were rumors that Stevie might skip, but he is loyal. He says, "If it were not for Motown, many of us just would not have had a shot at success. I'm staying because...
...many experts still thought that the Democrats faced nearly insurmountable odds. Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "In these assessments, Congress comes off as a sorry, almost pitiful rival to the President. The brave initiatives of last January have become the cruel frustrations of now. The Democrats have lost their momentum, their sense of purpose and esprit. They are floundering in a political morass. They see themselves as disarrayed and helpless. But if with 289 members of the House they cannot act, they might as well call in the dogs. The hunting will be over...
...adventure traverses a course charted by Don Juan and Carlos Castaneda; by now it should be no more challenging than a walk around the block. Instead, Poet Neil Claremon, in his first novel, manages to trap the solar energy of his landscape; the shadowy Indian existence is thrown against the brilliant screen of another reality that hovers, shimmers and then vanishes the way it came. Claremon is a bit of a necromancer himself, easily summoning up the spirits of B. Traven, Garcia Lorca and-unhappily -Ernest Hemingway. It is in echoing Papa's Spanish style that the novelist makes...