Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...images of Goethe. Robert Vaughn displays a flinty decency as Field Marshal Milch, who probes surgically for Speer's conscience, or at least his common sense. As Hitler, Jacobi spellbinds-first with the ingratiating gifts of the born orator, then with capricious viciousness. Finally, as the cracked shell of a dictator, he feebly insists that "it is easy for me to end my life." It would indeed have been, if Hitler could have guessed how his malignant legend would grow. Our addiction to horror shows has kept him with us-a dark star over the world's troubled...
...continues even though the Administration has no plan for basing it. There is little chance that the Reagan team will devise a viable method of deployment--it spent several months last year trying to dream up an alternative to the Carter Administration's race-tract-cum-shell game proposal--making the mobile missile a colossal waste of money or a very expensive bargaining chip to be traded off in some distant strategic arms reduction talks...
...midshipmen were sunk almost before the race began. They rowed to the starting line in a heavy, wooden Pocock shell better suited for the perpetually rough Severn River in Annapolis. But the Charles early Saturday morning was glass-smooth, and the Crimson oarsmen grabbed an early five-seat lead at the start, rowing at a sharp 42-stroke cadence...
...Saturday, on a turbulent Seekonk River in Providence. Brown rowing enthusiasts thought for a while that the prize would finally be retaken. The Bruins' shell, stacked with five of last year's IRA freshmen sprint champions, jumped off the line to a half-length lead and seemed poised to pull away from the Crimson boat...
...annually. Government service has also taken a toll on Richard Sinnott, 55, the former city censor. In charge of issuing permits for rock concerts, Sinnott occasionally took in the acts. The rowdy crowds, he claimed, "instilled a sense of terror throughout my entire body. I was reduced to a shell of myself, barely able to function." His pension request: $21,000 a year...