Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could have been ground out on the back lot of Universal City for all the sense of place- or just sense- that it displays. In his eagerness to cast unknowns, Director Mark Robson must have passed over some good actors. Most of his energies, and those of Scenarists Joan Silver and James Bridges, seem to have been poured into creating stereotypes with whom every member of the audience could identify, no matter what their politics. There is a bitter, continuously frustrated campaigner against the war (Kathleen Nolan), a vociferous, tirelessly anti-Communist booster of the military effort (Katherine Justice...
...fire escape to the third-floor window of a program director's office so that he could spring inside with his wares. Another managed to pose as a waiter in a program director's favorite restaurant, then served up his "push" single to the program director on a silver platter...
...steeped in talent that their bench warmers may well be the No. 2 team in the nation. Asked if there is any way to stop Wooden, Oklahoma City Coach Abe Lemons said: "Wait, and some night when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, drive a silver stake into his heart. He is unreal...
Take the case of Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, 42. Herbert, an altar boy carved out of Pennsylvania anthracite, went to Korea ("I wanted above all else to be a soldier") and emerged as that war's most highly decorated enlisted man-over 25 medals, including three Silver Stars, one Bronze Star and four Purple Hearts. At one of many ceremonies in his honor, a bayonet that had been run through his side was polished up and ritually presented to him by Jennifer Jones. Then Eleanor Roosevelt drew him aside, told him to leave the Army...
...captured eleven. Such success seemed a mystery to other officers, but to Herbert it was as obvious as a pair of cross hairs. "Rabbits hide, tigers stalk," he writes. "If the infantry is to win, it must be a tiger." In 58 days of combat, Tiger Herbert won another Silver and three more Bronze Stars...