Word: roped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight the battle of the balance of payments, the world's two major exporters of capital-the U.S. and Britain-have lurched toward controls. Under newly tightened restrictions on foreign loans and investments, Washington hopes to cut the capital outflow by $2 billion this year. Eu rope stands to lose about $1.5 billion in American capital, Japan and Australia about $300 million between them...
...unpretentiousness of home-movies comes through in the acting, as, unfortunately, it does in the editing. A Man and a Woman flowed; each episode followed the one before it smoothly. In Live for Life, the documentary sequences chop up the story, and though Lelouch has tried to fashion a rope, all we get is a few strands loosely wound together. The story itself stops and starts like a temperamental machine; incidents last too long, making their point several times over, while others are cut short. But where it goes, the film is sometimes eloquent, sometimes hilarious, sometimes magnificent...
...teaching pro in El Paso until last year, when he entered the U.S. Open at his wife's insistence, wound up fifth and won $6,000. Committed now to the tour ("You don't have to put up with the little old ladies here"), Lee skips rope and does situps, is often the first pro on the practice tee in the mornings...
...story is a Swedish folk tale set in the 1880's. Tight-rope dancer Elvira Madigan (16-year-old Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Tommy Berggen) fall in love, desert their families to live together in the summer of a Scandinavian countryside. They catch butterflies, roll in the flowers, move along from resort hotel to resort hotel. But they run out of money. And, trying to keep their identities secret, they are unable to find work. On the edge of starvation, Sparre kills Elvira, then himself...
Gallagher earned the nickname "Rabbit" in his freshman year. "My roommates caught me jumping rope to build up my leg muscles," he said, "so they decided to write 'Rabbit' all over my gym shoes...