Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a screening of "Rocky," which brought the filmmaker an Oscar for Best Director, Avildsen answered audience questions, recounting misadventures on the set and the working habits of such stars as John Belushi and George C. Scott...
Department members said Adams UniversityProfessor Bernard Bailyn, Loeb UniversityProfessor Emeritus Oscar Handlin and TrumbullProfessor of American History Donald Flemingobjected to promoting Brinkley. The three areproponents of what Huggins called "the Harvardstyle of American history," an approach that seesthe field as sprawling and eschews specialization...
...Maypole dance. Partners move sideways, taking a long step and hauling the other foot behind. The real fire is down below. Partners can press hips close enough to grind grain, dance a few steps, drift away from each other, then, as the music quickens, come together again. Says Oscar Herrera, 34, a Salvadoran immigrant who directs a San Francisco social-service agency: "The merengue grabs you so much that even if you get tired and soaked in sweat, you can't stop dancing...
...Harvard style," Huggins said, was forged in 1940s and 1950s when Professor of History Emeritus Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 and Loeb University Professor Emeritus Oscar Handlin dominated the field of American History...
Lemmon, however, is not going to have only himself to thank for his umpteenth Oscar nomination. As the long-suffering Gillian, Andrews provides a sane contrast to the frazzle-dazzle of Lemmon's performance. There is more than mere discipline in her work. Her tart, get-on-with-it Englishness stiffens the spine of her characterization -- and makes the one moment when she gives in to her dread all the more poignant...