Word: rutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. His bawdy farces were popular and funny, even a bit courageous for their time in the moral questions they rained. By the middle '60's, though, the sex comedies Wilder was making were far behind the vanguard, and he showed no sign of climbing out of his rut until 1970, when he made The Private Life of Sherlock Halmes, his best film in at least a decade. Had Wilder regained his originality for good" Not a chance...
...Tufts goal came when Harvard fullback Frank Gerold passed the ball back to goalie Peter Zurkow, in an attempt to relieve pressure on the Crimson defense which was having problems clearing the ball. The ball hit a rut in the uneven Tufts field, bounced away from Zurkow, headed right to a Tufts forward, who booted it into...
After his discharge, Trintignant spent a decade in a rut, playing mooning lovers and timid husbands in a succession of forgettable pictures (Mata Hari, The Game of Truth). These were interspersed with equally unmemorable Paris stage performances, including an attempt at Hamlet that was tragic in more ways than...
...report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer to as the "velvet rut." Says Borah: 'If you are born in the right family and keep your mouth shut, you can just ride it on through." But they persevered, haranguing at public meetings, until they finally attracted national attention (the New Orleans papers had conspicuously ignored them). Finally, almost three years later...
...actively opposed Hitler, Brandt fled to Norway in 1933, became a citizen and later fought the Nazi invaders as a Norwegian major. He will deliver his acceptance speech in Norwegian-"My first language," as he is fond of saying. At his side will be his Norwegian-born wife, Rut...