Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they simply borrowed, say, dollars in New York or pounds in London, they would be forced to pay stiffer rates than for Eurocurrencies...
...half cheers! Two and three quarters? Not enough, in these cheerless times. Let's say three cheers and a quark for Head over Heels, an eccentric little comedy about what zoologists call pair bonding. The trouble with the pair on view is that only half of it, an unsteady young man named Charles (John Heard), is bonded. The other half has gone back to her husband. She is Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), a pretty and appealing but not very confident young woman who regards herself as quite ordinary. To the love-sotted Charles she is Cleopatra, and that...
...year ago, but Charles is still zonked. The phone rings and... no; it is only his mother (Gloria Grahame), a withered vamp whose insulation has started to fray, and who flirts coyly with suicide whenever she feels that not enough attention is being paid to her, calling to say that she has taken sleeping pills again and is sinking in the bath water. No matter. The logic of Charles' obsession tells him that the next call will be from Laura, who will say to him that the sky is blue and birds are singing...
...unification of two of the forces is, ultimately, where Glashow, Weinberg, and their fellow recipient, Pakistani Dr. Abdus Salam, fit in. But not right away. Before their breakthrough came a legion of wayward plaths, of errors and frustrations. "Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger," Glashow will say of his great mentor, "attacked the problem, but even he came away discouraged. There were too many mysteries." This was as recently as 1955, and at this time only a lonely few really believed that someone would prove this abstract theory...
Jaffe also wasn't surprised by the committee's decison. "In physics," he suggests, "there's clearly a small group which everybody in the field recognizes as head and shoulders above the rest. Maybe 20 persons. They are all deserving of the prize, but it can only go to say 20 per cent of them. Here's where publicity, both within the science community and outside of it fit in. Within the group the selection is fairly arbitrary...