Word: oned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes of overtime passed relatively tamely. Walter Diaz uncorked one hard, low shot; but it went straight into Tabak's arms, and the score remained...
Returns still being tabulated also indicate that all six referendum questions on the ballot, including one asking the City Council to withdraw all city funds from banks doing business with South Africa, will pass...
DIVORCED. Pyrotechnic Rock Star Mick Jagger, 35, leader of the Rolling Stones; and Bianca Jagger, 34, Nicaragua-born actress and disco habitue; after eight years of marriage, one daughter; in London. After 18 months of transatlantic legal fireworks and a failed attempt to move the case to Los Angeles, jet-setting Bianca was granted a divorce in 18 minutes on uncontested grounds of adultery...
...hardest reality, politics has more and more entailed a practice of the theatrical arts. Candidates recite words set down by craftsmen who for purely technical reasons are not called scriptwriters; they sell themselves with minimovies called commercials; they thrive on pseudo events-of which the Big Announcement is but one-contrived by people who work like stage managers; once in office they are quite as concerned with images as Fellini, though hardly for artistic ends...
Granted, show business folk have every right to politick. And politicians are entitled to use every self-serving gimmick that the law allows. Still, given the American tendency to worship stars, one may wonder whether eventually show business might be too casually accepted as an appropriate training ground for political leadership. The question is pertinent even if California's election of Actor George Murphy as a U.S. Senator is shrugged off as a typical West Coast aberration...