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Word: sondra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department reported last night that the government of Turkey, a NATO member and strategic military ally of the United States, has been overthrown in a bloodless military coup. Spokesman Sondra McCarty said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara reported no violence or danger to Americans there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turkey Coup | 9/12/1980 | See Source »

...mixed in with all the corn, of course, are a few good laughs. At one point, when the perfectually prissy and platinum (Sondra Locke) cuddles up to Bronco Billy in the back of his trailer, Eastwood gets all soft and sentimental and tells the story of his life. He went on the road, it turns out, after he went to jail. And he went to jail, it turns out, because he tried to kill somebody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bursting in Air | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

...character like Billy McCoy, who makes Rocky Balboa sound as cynical as Céline, has not graced movies since John Wayne's "Singin' Sandy" westerns of the mid-'30s. His nemesis turned girlfriend recalls the snooty madcaps of the old screwball comedies. Sondra Locke is no Carole Lombard; indeed, Bronco Billy would have benefited from the presence of a more elegant, less abrasive actress like Jill Clayburgh or Blythe Banner. But Locke strong-arms her way into your affections at about the time Billy wins her over, and by the end of Bronco Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Carnival Knowledge | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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