Word: oscars
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Although they compliment and sustain one another on the course, Beckford and Linsley rival Felix and Oscar as the Odd Couple...
...from the 4-2 deficit in the eighth inning when they loaded the bases with none out. First baseman Bob Watson, who earlier had singled and doubled, opened with a triple off reliever Dan Quisenberry. The K.C. bullpen ace then walked Reggie Jackson on a three-two count and Oscar Gamble on four pitches...
...final years, during the deluge of violence and pornography, the film office struggled to maintain reasonable standards despite changing times. After 1971, the year the Catholic office withdrew its support of the Hollywood rating code, the Review branded 15% of releases with a C. But Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy, rated X by the film industry itself, got the Catholics' A-4 (O.K. for adults "with reservations") because it was seen as a serious slice-of-life film, homosexuality and all. Another A-4 film, John Travolta's disco epic Saturday Night Fever, was deemed to contain positive moral...
DIED. Lewis Milestone, 84, director of nearly 40 films, notably the 1930 Academy Award-winner All Quiet on the Western Front; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
...poet who goes with the President. Thus James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter; Rod McKuen might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another lyricist, perhaps: Alan Jay Lerner. Harry Truman's? Edgar Lee Masters. Richard Nixon's? Imamu Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones). Eugene McCarthy's? Eugene McCarthy...