Word: razors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is shaky when the friendship between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is sentimentalized, and at the end, when invention gives in to a mawkish resolution. But all the performers are excellent, and Eastwood unwinds a little from his customary characterization of a terse, razor-eyed stranger, breaking through to a kind of boyish affability. Cimino himself renders most of the movie with enough cunning to make it one of the most ebullient and eccentric diversions around...
...Razor's Edge." But Republicans are generally agreed on what they would like the President to do on his own: resign. As they gathered in anxious huddles last week, as their mail piled up from angry constituents, they recognized that the President's troubles were also their own. The longer he clings to office, the harder it will be for them to win re-election in the fall. "We're on the razor's edge," said a Mid-Atlantic G.O.P. Congressman. "These are the facts of life." In the meantime, many Republicans feared that the President's delaying tactics were...
...first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, at 81, the only living five-star General of the Army. Bradley returned last week to the ivied walls on the Hudson for the dedication of the Omar N. Bradley Library, which will contain his personal papers. With his uniform razor-creased and his eyes glistening as if they were spit-shined, Bradley told cadets: "Every time I return to West Point I visit my youth, my roots, my dreams. At this stage of my life I'm glad to be anywhere, but today I feel a special kind...
...takeover, had his eyes torn out in front of his family before being executed. When Lieut. Colonel Alexandre Banza, who backed Bokassa's grab for power, was accused in 1969 of planning another coup, he was dragged before a Cabinet meeting where Bokassa slashed him with a razor. Guards then beat Banza until his back was broken, dragged him through the streets of Bangui and finally shot...
Radcliffe's number one, Ruth Stevens, found Princeton's Wendy Zaharko a deservedly formidable opponent. Stevens kept a cool head and delivered some well-placed rail shots, but fell in three smooth games, 15-3, 15-3, 15-7, to Zaharko's razor-sharp accuracy and powerful hits. Zaharko won the women's national intercollegiate championship...