Word: spate
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...latest in a recent spate of huge, gigantic, incredible spectacle films on TV. This won more Oscars than any movie in history (11), but it's still a good film. (Especially the chariot race scenes.) Ch. 7, 8 p.m. Color, 3 1/4 hours...
Allen's observation is peculiarly ironic. In the recent spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
...conflicts within and beyond the, University, it also undertook investigative reporting with a gravity of purpose unusual for a college paper. while excesses were sometimes committed, we, the readers, always knew that objective reporting and representative editorializing on major issues were the goals and, usually, the reality. The recent spate of articles on Prof. Kiely and Hugh Berryman have typified an inexplicable decline in what had augured to be an emerging Crimson tradition of high journalistic standards. This deterioration is inexplicable because many of the questions which stimulated discussion five years ago still exist: Harvard's involvement with its community...
...have the class to do it properly. And, of course,' he added, 'you are a friend of Scottie's.' " Bare Bones. Evans had hoped to buy the rights for $130,000, but by the time Merrick got to Mrs. Smith there was a sudden spate of competitive bidders, including Robert Redford and Producer Ray Stark. It took Merrick a year and a half to close the deal for $350,000 plus a generous percentage...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...