Word: numberless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three hour-long documentaries made for Britain's Thames Television by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, the team responsible for the best overall film history ever made, 1980's 13-part Hollywood. They were given access to Chaplin's film vaults by his widow, and to numberless outtakes from the pictures he made in 1916-17 for the Mutual Film Co., which are now controlled by a silent-film collector-impresario, Raymond Rohauer. From hundreds of hours of this material, the pair has fashioned not only a priceless contribution to film history, but an essay that makes...
...eyes all that happened; I even took part in it, just as hundreds and millions of my compatriots did. But mere participation does not give anybody the title of a specialist, and an eyewitness can not be called a clairvoyant. The only thing I can do during numberless conversations, discussions, quarrels etc. is to try to rectify some most obstinate misunderstandings, which reflect the enormous distance between the Western and Eastern ways of political thinking...
...flailing buffoon, a crossbreed of Dickens' Pecksniff and Fred Allen's Claghorn, full of futile cracker righteousness. Yet in Aide John Carbaugh's phrase, Helms "planted the flag": his hopeless proposals sometimes forced Senators to take stands on issues they would have just as soon avoided. He introduced numberless bills to stop abortions, to prohibit sex education, to reinstate capital punishment. All lost, by ratios of 10, 20, 50 to 1. He stalled approval of Nixon sub-Cabinet appointees who were not conservative enough for him. He embarrassed Gerald Ford by insisting that the President meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.* This...
Years before alligator shirts covered every second American torso, long before artifacts of Ivy League style were mass-merchandised, before anyone dreamed of writing an "official handbook," Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel was the premier public place for preppies. Within its vaulting rococo spaces, numberless Princeton boys leered at an endless parade of Vassar girls, while Dartmouth seniors, a little tight, chatted up Smithies. Aging doughboys staggered out of regimental reunions singing. The bubbliness was swell and incessant. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger, writing for and about two generations of preppies, each dragged characters through the gilded Palm Court, under...
Comparatively short to other women players at 5 ft. 5 in., Horne has had to make the transition to guard this year after excelling as a forward in junior high, high school, and numberless years of basketball camp down on the Cape, near her home town of Weymouth, Massachusetts. The transition has been, to say the least, highly successful, though Horne would be the last to admit...