Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a...
Who were those women sizing up one another like a couple of harridans glaring over a backyard fence? Incredibly they were Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Heather Bilandic, socialite wife of the former mayor with whom Byrne has been feuding before and after she knocked him off in a bitter...
Haydn: String Quartets, Opus 20, Nos. 1-6 (Juilliard Quartet, Columbia; 3 LPs). Propulsive rhythms, a biting attack, hard tonal sheen - these are the qualities listeners have come to expect from the Juilliard, and they are not necessarily the best qualities for Haydn. But the surprise of this set is...
In the annals of fictional or, for that matter, real-life adolescent goofiness, Dave's manner of asserting himself is singular, and also hilarious, especially as it bounces off Paul Dooley's expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely...
Certainly a contender, if not the outright champ, for terminal indecision is Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (1941), starring Gary Cooper. Five endings were shot; at one point, three were previewing simultaneously in different towns. Another classic case was Casablanca. Until the very end, the script remained refreshingly...