Word: properly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they are asked to do, these surprising children and their adventurous directors are showing the camera new ways to look at the young...
...famous primarily for her detective stories, Lord Peter was only one of her literary products. A medievalist ("I am a scholar gone wrong," she once remarked), she translated Dante and several early French epics. She wrote feisty essays on the decline of the detective novel, the proper use of English, and, in Are Women Human?, male arrogance: "I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction 'from the woman's point of view.' You might as well ask what is the female angle...
...their survey, tenants claimed that heat was not supplied at the proper temperatures (68-78 degrees). Tenants said this problem was caused by the building's back wall which allowed the wind to blow through cracks between the window fixtures and the wall...
...money markets when appointed. Financier Robert Roosa says of Volcker, "There's nobody in the world of international finance that he doesn't know." When Volcker used the word discipline a dozen times in his short press conference last week to describe his view of proper Federal Reserve policies, the international banking community knew that his No. 1 concern would be to stabilize the dollar by fighting inflation...
...abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper fashion without interventionism to let the Nicaraguans let their voice be heard in shaping their own affairs." In response, the junta announced that a delegation "at the highest level" would visit the U.S. this week to seek reconstruction...