Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both luck and stubbornness had a part in Empain's release. Alarmed by the epidemic of kidnapings in Western Europe, the French government had established a firm policy of refusing to lay low during negotiations with kidnapers. Once it became apparent-from the sole ransom demand of $8.6 million-that they were dealing with professional criminals rather than political radicals, police grew bolder than ever. Though the Empain family was willing to pay off, police set up a phony ransom drop on a highway near Paris and ambushed a team of kidnapers who tried to retrieve the funds. Three...
This brings us to the movie itself. According to Dylan, the Rolling Thunder Tour's sole purpose was to make money ($1.25 million worth) to support the movie, and now we have the finished product to judge, all three hours, 52 minutes worth. It opens with Dylan singing "When I Paint My Masterpiece" and closes with "Knocking on Heaven's Door," and every song between those two clicks; Dylan singing with demonic intensity as he did on neither the Rolling Thunder television special or the live album. Renaldo and Clara also contains some of the best concert footage ever shot...
...Arabia, OPEC's linchpin, is still opposed to a price boost, but whether it can prevail is becoming less certain. Iraq and Kuwait are among the leading OPEC members who demand a rise in prices and perhaps even an end to the dollar's role as the sole currency in which world oil prices are quoted...
...murder mystery that makes Bruhl greedy with envy. To the young man, Clifford Anderson (Victor Garber), Bruhl proffers collaboration, an older man's sophisticated nurture of a sapling script. Refused. To his staunchly supportive wife Myra (Marian Seldes), Bruhl speculates about taking Anderson's life, swiping the sole copy of the manuscript and presenting...
...think it's assinine to talk about what margin we need to set our voting level at to push our constitution through," Stephen Winthrop '80, a South House delegate, said last night. "If we don't have a strong mandate then we will simply not be the sole legitimate representative of the students, as we say in the preamble...