Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summing up the meet, Andrea Pollack, East Germany's former world record holder in the butterfly, said: "They trained hard. We trained hard. But they were just better." Indeed, Pollack herself was beaten by another Nashville phenom, 18-year-old Joan Pennington. Next big test: the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where the outcome may be far different from what it was in Montreal. The American water sprites have come back...
...National Academy of Sciences found that naval radar operators died no younger than their peers in other jobs. The Environmental Protection Agency points out that 98% of the U.S. population is exposed to less than one microwatt of microwave radiation at any one time. Says State Department Biologist Herbert Pollack: "The 'zapping of America' is just a sensationalist charge." Perhaps so, but in an era of microwaves, their use obviously requires continued research and education...
...second of a series of lectures on "Government: Its Uses and Abuses," Connally, the 1978 Pollack Lecturer, spoke before about 40 people--less than one-tenth of the attendance at his first lecture...
...indictments of practices in the $3.2 billion-a-year film industry. Said Hollywood Lawyer Ronald Litz: "The custom in Hollywood is that you get away with as much as you can until you're caught." Litz won a $225,000 settlement from Columbia for Robert Redford and Director Sydney Pollack, who contended they had been denied their fair share of the profit from The Way We Were...
...does not want to make Bobby Deerfield sound like heavy going. Director Pollack has almost flawlessly understated its case. The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing. And in Al Pacino he has one of the few actors who can play narcissism without seeming to be a lummox, while Marthe Keller finds a steely spine in her characterization of what might have been your standard movie kook. She is vulnerable without being pathetic, compelling without being neurotic...