Word: roars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father, a wholesale meat dealer in Sunnyside, Queens, encouraged Caan to take up sports. It was as a teen-age basketball star that Jimmy first heard the roar of the greasepaint. After college, he spent four years at New York City acting schools. His idol was Brando ("Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done' Brando is lying"), and like him, Caan works from externals. "I wait for osmosis to take over," explains Jimmy...
Like the anti-busing people who talk of constitutional amendments and gather in groups like Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR), the 2000 people who have come from across the country to attend this conference see busing as a transcendent political reality, an uncompromisable issue. Many here spend over twenty hours in NSCAR's plenary sessions and workshops. Some sleep in the basement of B.U.'s Hayden Hall, where the conference meets; some travel to cheap housing at other area colleges. Long hours of haggling over dubious matters drag out time, but the people's time, the time of freedom, equality...
...friends to have a falling out." Gill justifiably twits Movie Critic Pauline Kael for long-windedness and openly recounts the depressions, breakdowns, bouts of alcoholism and premature deaths that struck a number of his colleagues. He resurrects no quips that set the fabled Algonquin Round Table on a roar. Most drinking staffers, he reports, preferred dark saloons "suitable for people with a glum view of life...
Amid the deafening roar of the overflow crowd at Princeton's Dillon Pool, Harvard senior Steve Baird edged the Tigers' champion sprinter Fred Test to win the 400 yard free relay and give the Crimson a 62-51 victory on Saturday...
...colonial times, when the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy held most of northeastern New York and portions of Vermont, Ontario and Quebec. The trees still whisper in the chill wind, and the delicate tracks of deer fleck the snow. Yet the primeval peace is reguarly broken now by the roar of a silver Porsche gunning out of the camp gate onto Big Moose Road, heading for the Food Town market or the Laundromat two miles away. These are 20th century Indians, fired by the militancy that prompted the occupations of Alcatraz in 1969 and Wounded Knee in 1973. They ride...