Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Director Steven Spielberg took a routine fish-bites-man story and transformed it into a show business phenomenon. Jaws, a merciless attack on the audience's nerves, quickly established its creator as the reigning boy genius of American cinema and went on to pile up the largest box office take in the history of movies. Now 29, Spielberg is ready with his encore, an $18 million extravaganza about UFOs and aliens who come to earth in them called Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If the director is nervous, it is hard to blame him: when the new film premieres...
...they call "The Beast" was describing how Harvard "mellows outs a player." It seems the Ivy League's gentlemanly spirit, so manifest at the tailgates, carries over into the gridiron, where players who were genuine sickies in high school are now helping each other off pile...
...retrospect Van Vleck admits he may have been "too cautious." Congratulatory telegrams poured in throughout the day, and buried in the pile of wires was the official acknowledgement of the Swedish Academy. He was, indeed, a Nobel laureate...
Russo, a six-foot, 230-pound senior from Everett, Ma., suffered a dislocated hip during practice on Wednesday afternoon. Russo was injured when he was caught in the bottom of a pile-up during scrimmage...
...reader should take what Maccoby says to heart. Even if the Gamesman were an exaggeration of a type, there is still enough truth in the rumor to make the average person tread carefully. It was the Gamesman, after all, who made it to the top of the business pile just in time to get the call to Washington and Camelot from the greatest gamesman of the all--President John F. Kennedy '40--and who stayed on to overanalyze the country into its most agonizing decade. Sound business tactics and calculated risks brought America into Vietnam and Cambodia, riots and recessions...