Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories. For Cincinnati Post Sports Editor Tom Tuley, the biggest problem of the evening was getting the ball scores. He fared well by telephoning U.S. cities, but when he called Montreal, everybody at the other end kept saying "On ne parle pas anglais. "He finally called Pittsburgh for the Expo-Pirate figures...
College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert...
Well, he sports a beard and lightened hair for his role as a young steelworker in The Deer Hunter, now being shot on location near Pittsburgh. That must be it: De Niro does not look like De Niro. But then neither did the flat-out dumb baseball catcher in Bang the Drum Slowly, the moody aristocrat in 1900, the murderous psychopath in Taxi Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except...
Spalding is not a new name in disputes over Mormonism. As early as 1833 one apostate Mormon argued that there were similarities between Smith's scriptures and an unpublished Spalding novel about the origins of the Indians. The missing Spalding manuscript was supposedly filched from a Pittsburgh publishing house by an itinerant preacher who gave the papers to Smith...
...game, concedes Laura Talbert, a veteran hostess and one of McCarthy's leading characters. But the game is played "in the greatest arena of all, where the survival of humanity is at stake rather than, let us say, the competition of business interests. Think what Pittsburgh must be like...