Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ahmed Kayali's younger brother Hasan will pick up some of the slack in the triple jump, but he is the only leaper with proven ability. "Again," McCurdy said, "we're looking for some support behind him." Freshman Russell Brooks may provide some help...
...first time since OPEC began quintupling petroleum prices in late 1973, the oil cartel split into opposing camps. In order to hold down prices, the Saudis, who are OPEC'S largest producer (8.5 million bbl. per day) and the possessor of the world's largest proven reserves (151.8 billion bbl.), threatened to increase production in order to lure customers away from their higher-priced rivals. So far, there are these signs that the Saudi strategy is working...
Women, who dominated the screens in the '30s and '40s, still make Hollywood a little nervous, however. "It has yet to be proven that there's a market for strong female roles," says Paramount Executive Richard Sylbert. "Traditionally, women go to the movies to see Robert Redford and Paul Newman. But maybe times are changing." Producer Dan Melnick takes a somewhat more optimistic view: "If a few of these pictures do very well at the box office, we may rediscover the 1940s all over again...
...about why he has "wasted" himself bringing Shakespeare bombastically to the screen and reciting poetry on the Tonight Show. To stage a production is to stage a production. Citizen Kane and Ambersons may have constituted neither flukes nor the harbinger of a restless, inspired, opus: they may just have proven that stage-wizard Welles, given good material and the tools of his trade, can put on one hell of an incomparable show...
Recognizing that the present system has proven unsatisfactory to most participants (Houseresidents and staff, as well as the great majority of freshmen), we will give careful consideration to the various ways in which the Freshman Union might be reopened on weekends. It will require time to develop cost estimates for the various possible options (ranging from $50,000 to $225,000), and also to consider the advantages which might be derived from another form of freshman affiliation with, and access to, the Houses...