Word: pal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...includes roughly a thousand people who represent the framework of American authority and substance. A goodly bunch of them came jetting out of Dallas, Beverly Hills, Akron and Cedar Springs, Mich., for ceremony and tribute to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, our new pal in the Middle East...
...ironic title - though R-rated, the film is definitely not a co-feature for Benjie - owe allegiance to no one. Vic, the boy (Don Johnson), is strong and a good shot. It is true that he is a little short on smarts, but Blood, his shaggy pal, more than compensates for that. Though he is able to talk only to his master, his brain is as shrewd as his nose...
...lingering mysteries seem destined to remain unresolved. Precisely what were Nixon's men after when they decided to bug Democratic National Headquarters in 1972? Did Nixon know in advance about the breakin? Who deliberately erased 18½ minutes of a key Nixon tape? What did Nixon's pal, Bebe Rebozo, really do with $100,000 in campaign funds donated by Billionaire Howard Hughes? Last week, after 28 months of investigation, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force issued its final report -and shed no light on these questions. But the bland and incomplete report, prepared under the direction...
This time Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black...
...great discipline and concentration to try similarly to gain nirvana, that ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated and compassion and wisdom are attained. "Transcendental Meditation does not reach the stage of giving you awareness of your real self," complains Dr. Kumar Pal, secretary of the Yoga Institute of Psychology and Physical Therapy in New Delhi. "It is merely a technique, a very limited technique, and it is not yogic because it lacks the prerequisites of yogic meditation. A moral life is the sine qua non of yoga practice. The students and admirers...