Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their passion and jealousy in startlingly different ways. Carne's characters revel in theatrics; illusion and reality smash into each other, driving each man to the very brink of his art, to the terrifying edge of truth. Jean-louis Barrault's famous, pantomimed re-enactment of an attempted pocket-pick, his face frozen in existential melancholy, is one of the most gaspingly, startlingly, fascinatingly magnificent scenes in world cinema. Beautiful, hilarious, tragic, one of the greatest movies ever made...
...morning of September 21, 1976, Ronni Moffitt and her co-worker and husband, Michael Moffitt, drove Letelier's dust-blue Chevelle out to suburban Maryland to pick Letelier up for work. They had driven his car home the night before because their own car wouldn't start. The three left the Letelier home at 9:15 a.m.--Michael Moffitt in the back seat, his wife and Letelier in the front. Just as they passed the Chilean embassy in downtown Washington a bomb exploded in the car. Both Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died shortly after their arrival at the hospital; Michael...
...students are demanding guaranteed space for women's news, editorial control over women's stories and the right of women's staff members to pick women's news editors...
...Moscow and with the revived SALT negotiations under way, neither the Americans nor the Russians seemed eager to make too much of the incident. Next day the Soviet government, which does not have diplomatic relations with Seoul, invited the U.S. to send a civil airliner to Murmansk to pick up the Korean plane's passengers and crew...
...altogether by Jan. 1, 1985; 2) the extension in the meantime of federal price controls to cover gas that does not leave the state where it is produced, which until now has been exempt from federal regulation; and 3) a formula whereby industrial users of gas will have to pick up most of the increased costs in the beginning, thereby removing a portion of the burden from consumers...