Word: shephard
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...Joystick," for instance, is an indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire Travis Bickle, the tormented psychopath of Taxi Driver, for doing the things he wants...
Shepard talked to a group of sixty Harvard students about writing plays. Shephard, who does not like to keep a high public profile, wanted to talk with playwrights at Harvard, but only about a dozen people in the crowd wrote plays, according to Marks. The somewhat sottspoken midwestemer fielded questions from Harvard actors, directors and writers with utmost ease. As he leans back in his chair, taking a long drag on his cigarette, Shepard keeps the group of students captivate for over two hours by answering a wide range of questions...
...sort of born-again Sky King. While Wolfe poked fun at Glenn the boy policing the language of his school chums, the film focuses only on Glenn the adult. Other digs are neatly skipped over. Wolfe, for example, implies that Glenn sought out NASA officials to discuss replacing Alan Shephard on the first flight, but not a hint of that appears on the screen...
...costs and rapidly evolving, expensive medical technology created huge demands for money. Traditional revenue sources, such as philanthropy, tax-exempt bond issues and other public subsidies, are no longer enough. Between 1980 and 1990, U.S. hospitals will have to spend an estimated $150 billion on plant and equipment. Says Shephard Plotner, executive director of the Forkosh Memorial Hospital in Chicago: "It is going to be increasingly difficult for independent hospitals, particularly the smaller ones, to survive...
...William Numeroff, who has painted portraits of 140 astronauts, NASA technicians and administrative leaders since the flight of Alan Shephard in 1959, the blast-off of Columbia "signals a new era of space travel...