Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losers are the Desert Inn, Frontier and Landmark hotels in Las Vegas. The Sands and Harold's Club, located in Reno, are nourishing. The Castaways, a Las Vegas hotel-casino, and the Silver Slipper casino are barely breaking even...
...title suggests, You Light Up My Life aspires to be heartwarming entertainment. It tells the story of a young L.A. songwriter-performer (Didi Conn) who escapes the clutches of a grasping stage father (Joe Silver), a doltish fiancé (Stephen Nathan) and a lecherous suitor (Michael Zaslow), and goes on to seek fame and fortune in New York. ("I've got to start doing my thing" is the way the heroine defines her goal in life.) Unfortunately, the clutter hides the story. Brooks spends more time shuttling extras in and out of scenes than he does developing his main...
...courtly Missourian has been helping Democrats out of jams for three decades. Last week elegant, silver-haired Clark Clifford, sometimes peering through a pince-nez, was at the side of pudgy, rumpled Bert Lance, carefully guiding him through the thicket of charges and questions. As Lance read his occasionally theatrical opening statement, Co-Author Clifford silently mouthed the words along with him. At one point the Senators paused in their rambling cross-examination to ask Clifford's expert help in interpreting a loan agreement that had been signed by his client. Clifford was the coolest and best-prepared person...
...material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
Hell, the real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week, teaching them good values." The speaker is New York Knicks Forward Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court...