Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia Pictures. Making a beeline for the flicks first thing in the morning is kind of like not getting out of bed--even better, unless your dream director is extremely gifted and has great studio backing. And who has dreams with Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando in them (normal ones, I mean)? Anyway, Columbia Pictures is running 20 hours of solid movies today in honor of its 50th anniversary. Absolutely free. And depending upon when you receive this paper, you have a certain amount of time left to skip Greek 2740b this morning and hunker down in the plush, cavernous...
Versifier Rod McKuen, 41, has returned to the kind of drifting blue-collar work that he used to do before he hit the treacle trail in 1966 with Stanyan Street and made his first million. To research a book he plans to write about "what people are doing in America," Rod is back driving cabs, grooming horses, baking cookies and selling ice cream in the streets. Hardly anybody has recognized him so far. But when Rod was pumping gas at a station recently in Miami, a woman drew up in a blue compact and gasped...
Nancy Foreman, George's mother, supported the family and was a harsh disciplinarian to her seven children. "I didn't spare the rod," she says. "I whipped good. I'd get off at 10 o'clock and sometimes I'd whip the rest of the night. Sometimes I took that long to straighten...
...recruited from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher (Ram John Holder...
...soon as the World Football League was born, former Crimson gridders like Rod Foster, Bill Craven, Ted DeMars and Eric Crone have had a chance to try out with the big boys. While only Foster and Craven have broken into the lineup in the new league, it is an indication that more will come...