Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TREAT A LADY. A callow New York City cop (George Segal) dogs the elusive tracks of a psyched-up killer (Rod Steiger) with a closetful of disguises in this adroit blend of black comedy and bloody homicide...
...boatings: cox, Tony Kane; stroke and captain, Bo Weisheit; Rod Petersen, 7; Bill Hobbs, 6; Roger Brooks, 5; Clark Gunness, 4; Brian Johnson, 3; Chuck Hewitt, 2; and Jim Ehrman...
...that seems a quixotic pastime, consider the fishermen who set out armed with nothing more substantial than fly rods basically designed for fresh-water trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same fly rod...
What was sandwiched in between seemed more like a nightmare. Tepid repartee was met with jittery tittering in the audience; microphones and material failed regularly; lack of distinction was the order of the night. Hardly anyone could quarrel with Rod Steiger's Oscar for best actor in In the Heat of the Night, but Katharine Hepburn's award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming...
...kick, his fans are convinced that a sci-fi renaissance is on its way. As the spy film sinks slowly in the West, and the western sinks rapidly into TV, studios are occupied with some dozen ambitious fantasy features, ranging from Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with Rod Steiger, to the high-camp French comic strip Barbarella, with Jane Fonda. The next trend for Kubrick? All he will give away is that it will be "a mind boggler...