Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this side of the '50s is rarely seen. There is an oft-noted penchant in movies and television to reduce anything to its lowest common denominator, to distill decades and historical figures down to a catchy phrase that will fit easily into the TV Guide or a 20-second movie promotion. Movies such as The Buddy Holly Story, Grease, American Graffiti and its television spin off "Happy Days" all invite us into a jolly stroll down memory lane. But this is a terribly selective memory. In American Graffiti the world revolves around cruisin' and high school romances, with the biggest...
...shove, pummel and growl at his players as he once did, he is no less a force in their lives. Surveying practice from a high tower overlooking two full-size fields, one grass and one AstroTurf, he notes every detail. Says All-America Tackle Marty Lyons: "He's seen things in me that I didn't know were there." Adds Linebacker Barry Krauss, another of the latest crop of Alabama All-Americas (37 so far): "I love him. The biggest thrill is that I can walk in and talk to him, and he knows and cares about...
...negotiations. Even before the President announced his program of voluntary wage-price restraints, the 1979 bargaining calendar looked rugged. Next year, contracts covering 3.7 million workers expire, compared with roughly 2 million in 1978. In an era when industry is struggling to hold down costs and union members have seen inflation eating up their wage gains, the stage is set for confrontation. Says John Gentry, labor relations adviser to Alfred Kahn, the nation's top inflation fighter: "Adding the guidelines to that lineup can only make bargaining more difficult...
Recent weeks have seen television biographies of Judy Garland, Abbott and Costello, Television Reporter and Cancer Victim Betty Rollin, Baseball Player Ron LeFlore, and Sally Stanford, a California madam who was elected mayor of Sausalito. Early next year Elvis Presley, who died only 16 months ago, will re-emerge on ABC in the person of Kurt Russell. Elvis Redux will be followed by an ABC-TV movie with Robert Duvall playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. This month, an all-star acting team will impersonate every President from Taft to Eisenhower in NBC's eight-part mini-series called Backstairs...
...Bush defends his refusal to accept the CDP debates by arguing he?s giving the American people "a chance to see the candidates in a range of different settings," but his apparent reluctance to sink his teeth into the traditional, specifics-heavy format favored by the CPD could be seen by voters as cowardice - a perception the Gore crowd is only too happy to encourage...