Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This little object lesson in stomped hopes and lapsed memories must have appealed to Nicholson's sense of irony, and worked as well on his aggressive sense of pride. He enrolled in a beginner's acting course run by Actor Jeff Corey. Other pupils included James Coburn, Sally Kellerman, Producer Roger Corman, Writers Carol Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson and Towne (who was later to write the screenplays of The Last Detail and Chinatown) hit it off immediately and shared a small apartment on the hungry fringes of Hollywood. Both of them had crushes on every actress...
...MOSES'S methods were devious and his pride revolting, his achievements remain impressive. Even in their self-conscious pomposity, Moses's works were on a scale none of his contemporaries in city planning could visualize. Moses didn't start out building in the sterile, boring style of architecture that New York City's public schools and park benches typify. When it opened, Jones Beach was the most carefully and creatively designed public work of its size in the country. Moses personally selected all the building materials, and many of the smaller touches--wrought-iron direction markers, for example--came from...
...most urgent of the government's tasks is to salvage Greece's pride from the wreckage of the junta's Cyprus ad ventures. For this it needs some cooperation from Turkey, especially at the Geneva talks. The Turks probably trust Caramanlis and Mavros much more than the junta be cause the two civilians have never strongly advocated enosis - unification of Greece and Cyprus. Ankara rightly suspected the junta of plotting the coup against Makarios as a first step toward eno sis. To demonstrate the new regime's reversal of policy, in the Cabinet's first...
...storytelling, he is more intent on delivering cold truths. Mainly, that whatever speculators were hearing about the future of silver in 1969, it was largely piped misinformation from a handful of supersophisticated con men. In his novel, the lords of both the underworld and over-world put aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about the same as a man in a wheelchair getting a football...
...situation allows Freeling to display a talent for domestic dialogue. In several deft scenes he explores the problem of feminine achievement and male pride in a country where marriage has usually been seen as a grueling lifetime game of mixed doubles...