Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect picture of a desperate Prince trying to dance all night before the cruel Queen of the Willis and save his soul. When the curtain finally came down on the American Ballet Theater's production of Giselle last week, the Manhattan audience threw flowers at the latest runaway genius from Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. For 25 semihysterical minutes, Baryshnikov and his partner, Natalya Makarova, who defected from the Kirov herself four years ago, were dragged back again and again for curtain calls...
Honda has aged twenty years in the second volume, Runaway Horses. He is now a judge in the Court of Appeals. A young man named Isao is brought before him, accused of conspiring in a right-wing plot against the government. Honda resigns his position and successfully pleads the boy's defense, for he has seen a birthmark--three moles under the left armpit--that convinces him that the boy is a reincarnation of the dead Kiyoaki. Released from jail, the boy assassinates an important financial figure, and then commits harikiri alone...
...runaway spiral has already gone far to dim two parts of the American dream: young couples with skimpy savings are finding it all but impossible to buy a" home, and would-be entrepreneurs are unable to get the credit they need to start businesses of their own. Small businesses generally are having trouble borrowing to expand or in some cases even keep going. Most big businesses can still get credit-indeed, their excessive borrowing is a major cause of the present squeeze. But electric-power companies, which must regularly go to the bond market to borrow the funds required...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this otherwise sleazy movie is its laissez-faire morality. Private eyes, and movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and slaughter in the name of the law. By comparison with Stone, Mike Hammer would look like Lancelot of the Lake...
Pennypacker, which has been referred to by many bitter freshmen as a "bastion of jocks", was officially declared the runaway winner of the freshman intramural sports competition yesterday...