Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houses, a similar development across the street. Police and public housing officials assumed the difference showed that Van Dyke housed more "problem" families -- broken homes, mothers on welfare and so on. A comparison of tenant characteristics indicated that, on the contrary, the two groups were virtually identical. The answer, Oscar Newman contends in Defensible Space, can be found in the contrasting designs of the two projects, between Van Dyke's high-rise slabs and Brownsville's low, walk-up and elevator buildings...
...Great Spirit, Godfather to all the red men, has spoken. In a well-planned ambush at Hollywood Gulch he tomahawked Oscar, but it was accomplished in a most un-Indian-like maneuver. While Great Chief Brando [April 9] skulked in the surrounding mesquite, he dispatched a young squaw to the paleface council, carrying the war lance. Tonto would have been more courageous than that...
...Marlon Brando deserves praise for placing more importance on the plight of the Indian than on the much sought after Oscar...
Fighting a blinding snowstorm, the four-engine Vanguard turboprop locked onto the approach system at Basel-Mulhouse Airport and received permission to land. Inside Invicta International Airlines' flight "Oscar Papa" were 138 passengers, most of them housewives from neighboring towns in southern England on a package "shopping tour" to Switzerland. They were singing and chatting when they received routine orders to fasten their seat belts and were told: "We will be landing at Basel Airport within ten minutes." Oscar Papa never made...
MONDAY: Adventures of Don Quixote. Rex Harrison as the Knight of the Woeful Countenance. The score for this acclaimed special written by Oscar winner Michel Legrand. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...