Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Josephine Whitaker, 19, was so proud of her new watch that she rushed to her grandparents' house on the other side of Savile Park in the Yorkshire town of Halifax to show it off. She started for home at 11:40 p.m., declining an offer to stay overnight because she had forgotten her contact-lens case. "Don't worry, I'll run all the way," she assured her grandparents before stepping out into the night...
Every so often, watching a Broadway show is like going on an archaeological dig. Unfortunately, these dramatic tombs contain no King Tut treasures. They are stacked with dusty relics that a museum curator might choose to label Homo theatralis, extinct since some time in the early...
Congress will find it difficult to avoid the passage of some sort of tax. Oil industry profits for the first three months of 1979 will soon be released, and they will show a surge of perhaps as much as 40%, largely because the OPEC cartel's price rises have caused higher prices in the U.S. too. In addition, companies benefit because their stockpiled inventories of crude, bought at lower prices, also rise in value. That alone will be enough to anger a public already critical of the oil industry, and the continuing rise in gasoline and other fuel costs...
...subscribers who pay $125 apiece for 15 months of advice. His second annual convention on financial survival last February drew 5,200 fans to Anaheim, Calif. Ruff usually commands $3,000 an appearance on the Chicken Little lecture circuit, and his half-hour syndicated TV talk show, Ruff House, is carried by 48 stations...
...other films. It may be a laudably ambi tious notion to refract the past through the present in such purely cinematic terms, but there is too much material to be digest ed in one movie. Too often Truffaut's flashbacks are hit-or-miss In jokes: while he shows us dozens of pieces, old and new, of the Antoine puzzle, he does not fit them together to form a fresh and exciting self-portrait. Some of the clips are brought into fascinating juxtaposition (or so Truffaut fans will find), but others are far less poi gnant in this film...