Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Danish Straits; Soviet destroyers patrol the Skagerrak from May to October, in effect controlling traffic from the North Atlantic in and out of the Baltic. Last year the Soviets held a major naval maneuver off the west coast of Denmark for the first time; Danish officials expect a repeat some time this summer. The Soviets have significantly bolstered their Baltic presence, adding six G-II-class submarines armed with nuclear missiles...
Maybe Santayana had it wrong after all. "Those who cannot remember the past," he said, "are condemned to repeat it." But in movieland, it is those who can remember the past who seem to feel compelled to repeat it. In New York, New York, Director Martin Scorsese recalls the big-band era. His is not the actual historical period, of course; on V-J day, 1945, when the film begins, Scorsese was two, and Scriptwriter Earl Mac Rauch, who devised the original story, was not yet born. What Scorsese is evoking is an epoch of moviemaking: the heyday of lavish...
Deep in the cellar and rife with disgruntled stars angry at Board Chairman M. Donald Grant's tight contracts, the New York Mets made popular player Joe Torre their manager and immediately got red hot, winning seven of nine games. Can they repeat their Cinderella performance of 1969 and become world champs? Unlikely. But Torre, 36, who practices self-hypnosis "to eliminate the negative in my approach to life," has his team thinking positive and feeling loved. "The key to the game is being relaxed," he says. Coach Willie Mays has a simple explanation for Torre's instant...
...strap that acted like a kind of stirrup. To go up a foot or so, Willig used a pulley system. He would move one block as high as he could reach and hoist himself up. Then he would unhitch the lower block, attach it above his head and repeat the whole procedure...
...nearly gagged trying to say some of Lucas' lines. " 'I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought aboard, Governor Tarkin,' is not everyday conversation," says Fisher. "There were times when I issued a threat to tie George up and make him repeat his own dialogue," adds Harrison Ford, 35, who plays Han Solo, the cynical mercenary captain of the Millennium Falcon. "I told him: 'You can't say that stuff. You can only type it.' But I was wrong. It worked." The only actor whom Lucas allowed to change anything...